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fashionable Royal Academician, Frank Owen Salisbury, commissioning a portrait of her deceased mother, was [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] indignantly surprised when the [[strikethrough]] painting [[/strikethrough]] picture was declared a copy of photographs rather than an original oil ptg. [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] She entered a protest. The outraged artist [[strikethrough]] himself was even more [[/strikethrough]] appeared in court & claimed that the two small photographs which had been furnished him were "poor reproductions from daguereotypes," one "so small he could cover the face of it with his thumb," [[strikethrough]] These, he said, [[/strikethrough]] as that they served only to give him "the idea of the character." The subject's likeness was achieved not through copying but through the daughter's "knowledge, memory and description and her likeness to her mother, plus a living model." The court held that each such case must be judged on its own record--and in this instance said the "weight of evidence establishes that the artist exercised such esthetic imagination and conception as to justify his completed work being classified as an original painting." But there is no such "weight of enidence" for the GIS' hand-painted dream-girls. Even when the photograph is not returned with the thickly encrusted canvases, the practiced eyes of the art examiners can spot a "copy." 

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[[strikethrough]] But [[/strikethrough]] Frequently the question of "original" involves the more delicate business of attribution. For if a painting is purported to be by So-and-So, it is not an original unless it actually is by So-and-So. If it is not, it