After his broken engagement, the heartbroken Locksley moves to rural New England to become a painter. He says, "I have determined to stand upon my own merits."

Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Other examples are:

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Glimpses of Gauguin by Maryann D''Agincourt

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Printz by Maryann D''Agincourt

May Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

Shade and Light by Maryann D''Agincourt

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

The Real Thing by Henry James

The Gold Finch by Donna Tartt

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Journal of Eva Morelli by Maryann D''Agincourt

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

A Painter of Our Time by John Berger

The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland