The Temptation of Your Touch
“MAX WHISPERED, taking the candlestick from Mrs. Spencer’s hand and holding it aloft.
The housekeeper did not protest. Her sigh was resigned, almost as if she had been anticipating such a reaction.
Max had been entertained in some of the finest homes in England, had toured countless museums in Florence and Venice during his grand tour, and seen hundreds of such portraits in his day, including many painted by masters such as Gainsborough, Fragonard, and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dryden Hall, the house... in which he had grown up, was home to an entire gallery of his own stern-faced ancestors. But he’d never before been tempted to forget they were anything but flecks of dried paint on canvas.
The artist of this portrait, however, had captured not just a likeness, but a soul. To even the most insensitive eye, he had obviously been madly in love with his subject, and his intention was to make every man who laid eyes on her fall in love with her, too.
He somehow conveyed the illusion that he had caught her in the wink of time just before a smile.MoreLess
The housekeeper did not protest. Her sigh was resigned, almost as if she had been anticipating such a reaction.
Max had been entertained in some of the finest homes in England, had toured countless museums in Florence and Venice during his grand tour, and seen hundreds of such portraits in his day, including many painted by masters such as Gainsborough, Fragonard, and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dryden Hall, the house... in which he had grown up, was home to an entire gallery of his own stern-faced ancestors. But he’d never before been tempted to forget they were anything but flecks of dried paint on canvas.
The artist of this portrait, however, had captured not just a likeness, but a soul. To even the most insensitive eye, he had obviously been madly in love with his subject, and his intention was to make every man who laid eyes on her fall in love with her, too.
He somehow conveyed the illusion that he had caught her in the wink of time just before a smile.MoreLess
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