The Philistines

“Honesty,” Arthur Fenton says, “is doubtless a charming thing for digestive purposes”—but too expensive a luxury for an artist trying to get ahead.

In Boston’s art world, Fenton once railed against the wealthy patrons he now courts. His marriage to Edith Caldwell gives him a path to her uncle Peter Calvin’s influence, and soon he is the fashionable portraitist who knows how to flatter both a sitter’s face and a patron’s vanity. Yet the sharp-tongued artist still sees the bargain he has made: his work can please society, or preserve the sincerity his old friends remember, but can it do both? As he paints a prosperous sitter who mistakes candor for an invitation to pry, Fenton must keep his temper—and his business—intact. How long can he profit from the shams he once scorned?

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