The painter
By: Will Davenport
Publisher: Ted Smart
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780007705610
Subjects: Portrait painting; Fiction
Description: In January 1762, 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 and sets about seducing her, but he has a rival.