The painter
By: Will Davenport
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780006514602
Subjects: Portrait painting; Fiction; Artists
Description: January 1662. Rembrandt, bankrupt and drunk, stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay his passage, he must paint the captain's portrait. For himself, he paints the captain's beautiful wife, hoping to seduce her. But he has a rival - none other than poet Andrew Marvell. Hundred of years later, Amy Dale, a painter, discovers the traces of Rembrandt and Marvell's artistic duel and the captain's wife's secret journal. Amy keeps the journal secret - though she tells her lover. But that may have been a mistake.