Schalken the Painter

"e;He was not a man of this world, and the gold he paid with had a cold, ancient gleam."e;In the workshops of 17th-century Leyden, the young and talented artist Godfried Schalken falls in love with Rose, the beautiful niece of his master, Gerard Douw. But their romance is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious suitor: Minheer Vanderhausen. Blue-skinned, breathless, and draped in magnificent but ...