I don't know what Arthur Atherton is up to but he has no more evidence your husband is alive than the man in the moon.
Prepositional phrases can modify nouns, e.g. the man in the moon.
Who hasn't seen the " man in the moon " or faces in clouds or in the burning embers of a fire?
The man in the moon was sometimes associated with Judas or Cain, adding to the sinister overtones of this portrait.
When she was 14, she auditioned for a small role in The Man in the Moon and was instead cast as one of the lead characters.