![]() ![]() The lovers catch the tulipomania that has snared so many others. Maria, pregnant and desperate, is entrapped in their schemes. Sophia and Jan need money to escape from Cornelis. Their relationship is honest and uncomplicated, but they are poor.Īdultery and treachery set the stage for disaster. Secondary characters include Sophia’s maid, a robust, passionate, country girl named Maria and a fish-seller, Willem, with whom she is in love. Before too much longer, they are sneaking around, betraying Cornelis. Cornelis and Sophia sit for this artist, but before the first session is over, Jan and Sophia have fallen in love. He hires a portrait painter, Jan van Loos. ![]() Unfortunately, she has not gotten pregnant.Ĭornelis hits on another scheme for achieving immortality. He married the much younger Sophia primarily because he wanted an heir, but her youth, beauty and sweetness have won him over completely. Cornelis has already lost his first wife along with two sons to premature death. ![]() The woman is Sophia Sandvoort, the beautiful wife of the elderly and wealthy Dutch businessman Cornelis Sandvoort. This time the artist is a young man named Jan van Loos. It falls into the category of novels about the-woman-behind-the-painting that are so popular. My book club chose Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach for its last meeting, a historical novel set in 1630s Amsterdam, during the time of tulipomania–a bubble of speculation involving tulip bulbs. ![]()
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