![]() ![]() ![]() She longs to leave the workshop of her master and strike out on her own, but the rules of the Artists’ Guild prevent her from selling her own work until she is established as a master - and, then, only through the powerful guild itself. In richly descriptive prose befitting Leyster’s lustrous work, Callaghan tells the story of the young Judith in her early twenties, her parents having years before disappeared from her life, and her younger brother barely able to keep himself alive. Though most of Leyster’s life beyond her painting has been lost to history, Carrie Callaghan, in her debut novel, A Light of Her Own, has brilliantly re-imagined this woman who dared to believe herself the equal of her male Artists’ Guild co-members. Not as well known today as some of her contemporaries like Frans Hals and Rembrandt von Rijn, Leyster was the first and, for a long time, the only female painter allowed into the Artists’ Guild of the city of Haarlem. Judith Leyster was a painter of the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age. ![]()
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