Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteWhen I was in Amsterdam, I found that the portraits in the Rijksmuseum were beautifully painted by Rubens and Rembrandt, but the Dutch appear never to have had their portraits done until they were old and Burgermasters.
It is therefore a joy to see in the Mauritshuis – Head of a Young Girl by Jan Vermeer, who he was one of Holland’s most brilliant seventeenth century painters whose style was copied so cleverly in modern times by a man called Tom Keating.
After World War II the paintings that Herman Goring had stolen from all European countries were returned and no one would believe that the Vermeers were not genuine until Keating confessed that he had painted them.
Head of a Young Girl was acquired in 1882 for only two guilders thirty cents by Destombe, a collector, and was left to the Mauritshuis Museum in 1903.
I loved the canals in Amsterdam with the exquisite old houses that I have described in this novel.
It is indeed a City of a thousand and one bridges.
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