13/206 We've got that new model to-day." "What new model ?" "The one Mr.Wetmore was telling us about the old German; he's splendid. He used to be Humphrey Williams's model for his Biblical-pieces; but since he's dead, the old man hardly gets anything to do. Mr.Wetmore says there isn't anybody in the Bible that Williams didn't paint him as. He's the Law and the Prophets in all his Old Testament pictures, and he's Joseph, Peter, Judas Iscariot, and the Scribes and Pharisees in the New." "It's a good thing people don't know how artists work, or some of the most sacred pictures would have no influence," said Mrs.Leighton. "And the influence is the last thing a painter thinks of--or supposes he thinks of. |