![]() ![]() Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain-a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. Lukes 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 novels Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. About the Book 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 cant shake them, even long after the readings done. ![]()
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