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He was born in Orange, New Jersey, on August 10, 1925, to Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule World War II Vermeule entered Harvard University in 1943, in the same year as his father"s suicide and the continued escalation of World World War II prompted him to join the United States Army.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1947 and his Master of Arts in 1951 under George Master of Arts
Vermeule married the archaeologist Emily Dickinson Townsend in 1957. He is the father of Emily Dickinson Blake "Blakey" Vermeule, a professor of English at Stanford University and Adrian Vermeule, a law professor at Harvard Law School. Hanfmann. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of London in 1953.
From 1953 to 1955 he taught fine arts at the University of Michigan.
From there he shifted to Bryn Mawr College as Professor of archaeology until 1957 when was appointed curator of classical collections for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. While at the Museum, Vermeule was also a Lecturer in fine arts at Smith College.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969. Vermeule assumed the directorship of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1970s.
His term as curator was marked by the purchase of two large vases portraying the fall of Troy and the death of Agamemnon, a Roman portrait of an old man, and a Minoan gold double ax.
He trained several curators, including Marion True of the Jean Paul Getty Museum and Carlos Picon. He died at age 83 in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 27, 2008 of the complications from a stroke.
