The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

By Dominic Smith

Pages

368

Rating

3.87

Year

2016

FictionArtMysteryHistorical FictionHistoricalAudiobook

Description

In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching an ice skater from the edge of a wood.

In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has "At the Edge of a Wood" hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, by a scarcely known female painter of the Golden Age, he holds the painting dear and when it is stolen, he is bereft. In Brooklyn, struggling art student Ellie Shipley accepts a commission to paint an intricate forgery of de Vos' sole surviving work, not realising that her decision will come to haunt her successful academic career.

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