The Pigment of Ambition
Elias Thornwood arrived in Liverpool on a Tuesday in October, 1887, with two shirts, three brushes ground to their ferrules, and a half-jar of vermillion that he kept wrapped in newspaper in his coat pocket. The fog was already thick by then — the kind of Liverpool fog that does not merely obscure but actively presses against you, warm and damp and smelling of coal smoke and river mud. He had...
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