When it becomes clear that both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably. Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization - female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When struggling art history grad student Ellie Shipley agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she becomes entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict.

The lawyer's marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of wealthy Manhattan lawyer Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. Defying the norms of her time, she decides to paint it. Though women do not paint landscapes, generally being restricted to indoor subjects, a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara - the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at sundown, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (2017) is a time-slip novel by Dominic Smith.Īmsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city's Guild of St.

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