![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in stages. Dominic Smith builds up layers of time, place and character, just as if we were witnessing the creation of a Dutch Golden Age masterpiece Summary: Superlative interplay of deceit, obsession and conscience surrounding an exquisite work of art. ![]()
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