This however is no Gainsborough-esque portrait with the happy couple side by side in the foreground
Posing in what looks like a side chapel, the wife sits demurely in a niche in the wall behind her upright husband. She occupies about the same amount of space in the picture as does her husband’s arm
Though modestly dressed, it would have been shocking to some even 20 years ago that she should be wearing trousers in a house of God
The bishop, needless to say, is, while not sumptuously, symbolically arrayed in long-skirted purple cassock with a fine silver chest medallion
