Shakespeare’s Portrait Not What It Seems
From Times Wire Reports
One of the best-known portraits of William Shakespeare is a fraud, painted 200 years after his death, experts at Britain’s National Portrait Gallery said.
The Flower portrait of Shakespeare wearing a wide white collar is often printed on the covers of his plays. Many art experts had suspected it was painted well after the 1609 date on it.
Tarnya Cooper, the 16th century curator at the gallery, said an analysis had uncovered chrome yellow paint from about 1814 embedded deeply in the work.
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