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.