The Portrait Painter (Pemberton Chronicles Book 3) Kindle Edition

Frances Pemberton does not perform. At thirty-four, she has built a precise and private life around her work — portrait commissions, the discipline of looking, the long patience required to move from the observation version to the assembled version to something true.Then James Ashby arrives from Galway with a miniature of his late mother and a commission that will require twelve weeks of her time.The sessions take place in Frances's London studio, one morning a week. James is direct, unhurried, and not performing anything either. Frances notices this. The observation version runs from the first session. What to do with it is a different question.There are no misunderstandings in this story. No rivals. No external obstacles. The difficulty is that the synthesis takes as long as it takes.The Portrait Painter is the third book in the Pemberton Chronicles — a quiet and intelligent Regency romance about honest attention, the long view, and two people who are not pretending to be anything other than what they are. Each book stands alone. Read more