Only Shakespeare Portrait Painted During His Lifetime Is Revealed in London (video)

NBC News ^ | March 10, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

The New York Times: “His face is open and alive, with a rosy, rather sweet expression, perhaps suggestive of modesty.”

[Bluegrass Conservative]

“His face is open and alive, with a rosy, rather sweet expression, perhaps suggestive of modesty.”

Or gin.

[Renderofveils]

It’s probably just an amalgamate portrait of various writers (both historical and contemporary to Shakespeare.) /cheap jab

[Londo Molari]

“His face is open and alive, with a rosy, rather sweet expression, perhaps suggestive of modesty.”

Sounds like Chris Matthews having a romantic dream about Zero.

[unkus]

ping

[Hegemony Cricket]

I’ll bet it’s actually a portrait of a totally different guy named William Shakespeare who lived at about that same time.

[meandog]

“His face is open and alive, with a rosy, rather sweet expression, perhaps suggestive of modesty.”

[Rennes Templar]

Only portrait? There are several portraits of Francis Bacon.

[Williams]

They have no name associated with this portrait they just think it is Shakespeare, someone had once scribbled “Sir Walter Raleigh” on the back but it doesn’t resemble him. This portrait has been copied several times, but again without the copies being identified as Shakespeare. So ....

[stop_fascism]

Looks like the Earl of Oxford to me.

[devere]

If it isn’t a potrait of Edward de Vere, XVIIth Earl of Oxford, it’s a fake.

[Revolting cat!]

Looks exactly like the second drummer in the Swinging Blue Jeans!

[a fool in paradise]

This is breaking news to me. I didn’t even know that Willie The Shake had even PAINTED any portraits. This was the only he painted in his lifetime, eh?

Who’s it of?

[a fool in paradise]

Shakespeare’s plays weren’t sold (legally) in his lifetime. Bootleggers transcribed the scripts from the audience. It wasn’t until after his death that proper editions started to come out.

[DJ MacWoW]

Well that was disappointing as the sound was in and out.

[SuziQ]

They have no name associated with this portrait they just think it is Shakespeare,

They compared it to engravings of Shakespeare published after his death, and when superimposed, the engravings look like this portrait was used as the model.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, talks to Warwick student Harriet Birchall about the discovery of a portrait of William Shakespeare, believed to be the only authentic image of Shakespeare made from life. -- Shakespeare Found

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. King Duncan, Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV, by William Shakespeare

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