Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her books include A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits (2009) and The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (2016) which won the James Tait Black Biography Prize. Her family memoir, On Chapel Sands: my Mother and other Missing Persons (2019) was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Costa and Rathbone’s Folio prizes. Her latest book, Thunderclap, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024.
I love this book because of the way she intertwines a subtle and tender love of her father with a deep understanding of Dutch art.
Anne Sebba
