The Painter by Will Davenport

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The Painter by Will Davenport

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Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art.

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The Painter by Will Davenport

Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must paint the Captain's portrait. For himself, he paints a portrait of the Captain's beautiful wife. Rembrandt has seduced many a sitter before, and sets about doing so again. But he has a rival - none other than the MP for Hull after the Civil War, the poet Andrew Marvell! And the Captain's wife is far from being a passive player in this triangular game of love, deceit and manipulation. All this is discovered in the present day by another painter, Amy, who has returned to her old family home as a restorer. As she paints a portrait of the man she is becoming involved with, so she uncovers the secrets of the past. This fine novel will appeal to fans of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Tulip Fever.
'Thrilling resonance between past and present, painting and people' Tony Parsons 'Exciting, grips the reader' Evening Press 'The excitement of a piece of lost art..on every level this is a tantalising idea... What a perfect fiction then to imagine some such masterpiece miraculously found again. Or even better still: to come across something that was always there but that had been covered up later by more crass hands. Science, detective work and art all working together. THE PAINTER by Will Davenport is that kind of story.' Sarah Dunant
Will Davenport is a former television and radio journalist.
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ISBN 13 9780006514602
ISBN 10 000651460X
Title The Painter
Author Will Davenport
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2003-04-07
Number of pages 416
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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