Keywords: people portrait Odds are in favor of this being a genuine portrait of Shakespeare. All the circumstantial evidence and provenance is compelling. If it is, it was painted by a member of Shakespeare's company when the Bard was in his 30s. It accords well with the tomb effigy and the First Folio engraving, which show a considerable older man, but one still recognizable as this youthful actor and playwrite. Odds are in favor of this being a genuine portrait of Shakespeare. All the circumstantial evidence and provenance is compelling. If it is, it was painted by a member of Shakespeare's company when the Bard was in his 30s. It accords well with the tomb effigy and the First Folio engraving, which show a considerable older man, but one still recognizable as this youthful actor and playwrite. |