Question: The painter of "A Lady Playing the Guitar" was born in what year?

Lady's Bridge is the fifth studio album from musician Richard Hawley, released on 20 August 2007 in the UK and on 9 October 2007 in the US.  The album follows his 2005 Mercury Music Prize-nominated album "Coles Corner".  It is named after the landmark location of Lady's Bridge in Hawley's hometown of Sheffield, an old bridge over the River Don that historically connected the rich and poor parts of the town.  Hawley told "Uncut" magazine that "the title is a metaphor too; it's about leaving the past behind".  The cover features a photograph, taken by Martin Parr, of Hawley and his guitar at the Club 60 music venue in Sheffield as a tribute to his father Dave who had died of lung cancer earlier that year: Dave Hawley had been a blues guitarist at the club in his youth, playing alongside Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. <SEP> A Lady Playing the Guitar (after 1670s) is an oil on canvas painting by an unknown copyist after a work by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.  It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. <SEP> Michael Nicolella (born December 31, 1963 in Providence, RI) is an American classical guitarist and composer.  Described as an iconoclast, he is known for his versatile, adventurous and eclectic approach to repertoire, including the incorporation of electric guitar into his concert programs and recordings.  Nicolella's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present.  His most recent recording is his own arrangement of the complete cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach; while his past four recordings focused on contemporary music, including his own compositions, alongside those of Toru Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze and Steve Reich.  He has championed music by such emerging composers as Laurence Crane and Jacob ter Veldhuis and has premiered many works written for him by other composers, including: Joshua Kohl, (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), David Mesler, Christopher DeLaurenti and John Fitz Rogers, who in 2001 wrote the forty-five-minute piece "Transit" for Nicolella, scored for electric guitar and computer generated sound.  His own compositions include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, a classical guitar concerto ("Guitar Concerto"), and an electric guitar concerto ("Ten Years Passed").  His most recent major composition for soprano, guitar (electric and classical) and orchestra, "The Flame of the Blue Star of Twilight", was premiered by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and soprano Alexandra Picard in April 2012.  He has performed and collaborated with a wide range of groups and artists including: violinist Gil Shaham, rock singer Jon Anderson, best known for his work as lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes, broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Seattle Guitar Trio, jazz singer Johnaye Kendrick, classical music comedians Igudesman and Joo and is a frequent guest with the Seattle Symphony.  Nicolella is a graduate of Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.  He is currently based in Seattle, where he serves on the music faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.  He is married to the painter Ann Gale. <SEP>  Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime.  He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer ( ; ] ; October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.