In a novel by this author, an artist ruins her unfinished painting with a blob of red paint, but it is still bought by a man who is killed while fighting a duel in Switzerland over her. The protagonist of a novel by this author takes a train to see a country landscape which 
In a novel by this author, an artist ruins her unfinished painting with a blob of red paint, but it is still bought by a man who is killed while fighting a duel in Switzerland over her. The protagonist of a novel by this author takes a train to see a country landscape which reminds him of a Lambinet painting. That character of this author tells a friend "it's not too late for YOU" at a sculptor's garden party. In a novel by this author, the protagonist loses his love interest to a (*) Carmelite convent and decides not to blackmail the murderous Madame de Bellegarde with a letter provided by Mrs. Bread. This creator of Christopher Newman also wrote about a man who is sent to Paris to bring Chad Newsome back to America. For 10 points, name this author of The American and The Ambassadors.
In a novel by this author, an artist ruins her unfinished painting with a blob of red paint, but it is still bought by a man who is killed while fighting a duel in Switzerland over her.
Henry James