Editorial Content for The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

A rare 17th-century painting links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, an exhilarating new novel from Dominic Smith that mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present.

A rare 17th-century painting links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, an exhilarating new novel from Dominic Smith that mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present.

Spanning three centuries and three continents that are linked by a mesmerizing work of art, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS is itself a masterwork from the acclaimed novelist Dominic Smith. Bridging the historical and the contemporary, the cast of characters in this finely woven story includes a female artist of the Dutch Golden Age (the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to a Guild of St. Luke in the Netherlands), a blue-blooded New Yorker whose family has owned the artist’s only known work since the seventeenth century, and a celebrated scholar who painted a forgery of the painting during the 1950s. Featuring a haunting winter scene in which a barefoot girl watches ice skaters at dusk, the painting transcends its origins, falling under the gaze of collectors and curators, lovers and thieves.

Inspired by the little-known women who became professional artists in the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS is ultimately a fascinating exploration of the nature of truth and the role of creative expression in our lives