HIS THROE WIVES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 242, 6 July 1908, Page 5

HIS THROE WIVES.

HOW HE HAD THEIR PORTRAITS , PAINTED. '■ Copley,', the celebrated'artist, hat] painted a family portrait, in which" a'man, his wife, and. his children'appeared. By the time tho picture was completed, the ; good lady had died, tho widower had ■ re-married, and he insisted on his ' second . wife being "'given' a placo on the/canvas. Tho artist suggested that for the sake of appropriateness the figure of the departed wife might bo turned into an -angel." But his patron would not hear of it; so he was pictorially represented with his two wives at his side. Some time later Copley's studio was again visited by'tho man, who was accompanied by a strange lady. ' ' His second wife had had an accident, he explained; this was his third,' and room would have to be found for her in the family . portrait. The likeness of wife No. 3 was added, and when it was shown to the latest comer, she protested indignantly that the figures ' of-'the other two had no right to be there, and at her commands Copley carefully painted them out. . • Finally, the husband disputed the price, ho had got! a picture of one wife oflly instead of three. — Liverpool Post."