Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St.
Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. A masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painter This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done.
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