I Am Rembrandt's Daughter

by Lynn Cullen

  The Jewish Bride. 1667. Canvas, 121.5.× 166.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

  Portrait of Nicholas Bruyningh (1629/30–1680). 1652. Canvas, 107.5 × 91.5 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Kassel.

  The Return of the Prodigal Son. Ca. 1668. Canvas, 262.× 205 cm. Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

  Copyright © 2007 by Lynn Cullen

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  First published in the United States of America in August 2009

  by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers

  E-book edition published in April 2011

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

  Cullen, Lynn.

  I am Rembrandt’s daughter / by Lynn Cullen.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia’s life as the illegitimate child of

  renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning

  her father’s love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a weathy suitor.

  ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-046-9 • ISBN-10: 1-59990-046-7 (hardcover)

  [1. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669—

  Fiction. 3. Painters—Fiction. 4. Plague—Fiction. 5. Poverty—Fiction. 6. Netherlands—

  History—17th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.C8963Iaam 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2006028197

  ISBN 978-1-59990-046-9 (e-book)