The portrait
By: Iain Pears
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780007202768; 9780007202775
Subjects: Artists; Fiction
Description: Why did artist Henry McAlpine forsake London - where he'd been feted by critics and gallery owners - to make his home on a remote outpost off the coast of Brittany? The truth begins to emerge when, four years into his exile, McAlpine receives his first visitor.