The Life of Fred Archer 27 
features, and this artist at Broxteth House who was doing the 
racehorses made a sketch of mother. My sister had it, and 
she left it to my Emmie. She had always promised she should 
have it because Emmie has such a look of her grandmother. 
It's just as the artist gave it to mother, this narrow gold frame 
and all. These two oil-paintings are of father and mother. 
He was a very small-made man ; look at his tiny hands and feet. 
His mutton-chop whiskers look so odd nowadays. Mother 
was dark, you see, but Fred, though he had grey eyes, was very 
like her." 
William Archer took his bride to live in the old family 
house in St. George's Place. 
