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The only two images of Shakespeare for which we have clear contemporary approval are his memorial monument in Stratford, which is a statue, and the Droushout image which appeared at the front of the First Folio, which is an engraving. The search for a painting which depicts Shakespeare has been going on for centuries, with any painting of an unknown man in Elizabethan dress being a possible candidate. Fraudulent paintings based on the Droushout engraving (the Flower portrait) or altered to resemble it abound.
The painting with the best possibility of actually being a painting of Shakespeare is the Chandos portrait, which has a pretty solid pedigree and does resemble the two images we know to be accurate.
Every few years someone comes forward with a claim that some painting is a genuine likeness of Shakespeare. The press always print these stories in the same way they print the latest claim that some anonymous Elizabethan or Jacobean play is really by Shakespeare. The most recent of these is the Cobbe portrait which does not look anything like the genuine likenesses of Shakespeare but was the basis of a painting which was fraudulently altered to look like him. On this extremely flimsy basis the owner of the painting and Stanley Wells, the Director of the Shakespeare Trust have claimed it is a painting of Shakespeare. Nobody else seems to think so.
You can Google image the Droushout, Flower, Chandos, Cobbe and other images purported to be of Shakespeare.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoOf the two images of Shakespeare which were approved by his contemporaries, neither were paintings. One was the engraving, done by a man called Martin Droushout, which appeared in the First Folio. The other was a statue erected by his family in the church in Stratford, and probably made by another Dutch artist called Gerhard Janssen. Both portray Shakespeare as a bald man with a small beard or moustache.
The painting which has the best credentials is called the Chandos portrait but nobody knows who painted it. The Sanders Portrait, which a number of people doubt to be a real painting of Shakespeare, and the Cobbe Portrait, the authenticity of which everyone except Stanley Wells doubts, are both likewise anonymous.
The only paintings of Shakespeare of which we know the artist are the Soest Portrait, painted by Gerard Soest in the 1660s and the Chesterfield portrait, painted at about the same time by Peter Borsseler. Both were done long after Shakespeare's death, so their accuracy is doubtful.
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∙ 10y agoYes he did but Romeo and Juliet is not one of them. Romeo and Juliet is a play. Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis is a poem.
Yes, he wrote sonnets and long poems like Venus and Adonis.
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∙ 15y agoWilliam Shakespeare was a poet, playwrite, and actor. He has written many famous plays such as Romeo and Juliet.
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∙ 9y agoWilliam Shakespeare did write poetry during 1593 due to the plague shutting down the theaters. Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets during this time.
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∙ 8y agoNo, he was a famous writer. Shakespeare was an English playwright who worked in the 1500/1600s at the tail end of the Renaissance.
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∙ 14y agono
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∙ 14y agoNone that are known.
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∙ 11y agoWriting is an art. Yes, he was an artist.
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