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Summary
This was long thought to be the only portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> that had any claim to have been painted from life, until another possible life portrait, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbe_portrait" class="extiw" title="w:Cobbe portrait">Cobbe portrait</a>, was revealed in 2009. The portrait is known as the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandos_portrait" class="extiw" title="w:Chandos portrait">Chandos portrait</a>' after a previous owner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brydges,_1st_Duke_of_Chandos" class="extiw" title="w:James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos">James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos</a>. It was the first portrait to be acquired by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(London)" class="extiw" title="w:National Portrait Gallery (London)">National Portrait Gallery</a> in 1856. The portrait is oil on canvas, feigned oval, 21 3/4 in. x 17 1/4 in. (552 mm x 438 mm), Given by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, 1856, on display in Room 4 at the National Portrait Gallery, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" class="extiw" title="w:London">London</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" class="extiw" title="w:England">England</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NPG-1">[1]</a>
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current | 08:26, 3 January 2017 | 420 × 600 (334 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | This was long thought to be the only portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> that had any claim to have been painted from life, until another possible life portrait, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbe_portrait" class="extiw" title="w:Cobbe portrait">Cobbe portrait</a>, was revealed in 2009. The portrait is known as the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandos_portrait" class="extiw" title="w:Chandos portrait">Chandos portrait</a>' after a previous owner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brydges,_1st_Duke_of_Chandos" class="extiw" title="w:James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos">James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos</a>. It was the first portrait to be acquired by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(London)" class="extiw" title="w:National Portrait Gallery (London)">National Portrait Gallery</a> in 1856. The portrait is oil on canvas, feigned oval, 21 3/4 in. x 17 1/4 in. (552 mm x 438 mm), Given by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, 1856, on display in Room 4 at the National Portrait Gallery, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" class="extiw" title="w:London">London</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" class="extiw" title="w:England">England</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NPG_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPG-1">[1]</a></sup> |
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Arden of Faversham
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
- Curtain Theatre
- Cymbeline
- Double Falsehood
- Early texts of Shakespeare's works
- Edward III (play)
- English Renaissance theatre
- First Folio
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Globe Theatre
- Hamlet
- Henriad
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII (play)
- Henry V (play)
- Julius Caesar (play)
- King's Men (playing company)
- King John (play)
- King Lear
- List of titles of works taken from Shakespeare
- Locrine
- Lord Chamberlain's Men
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Love's Labour's Won
- Macbeth
- Macbeth on screen
- Measure for Measure
- Othello
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Richard III (play)
- Richard II (play)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Shakespeare's late romances
- Shakespeare's life
- Shakespeare's plays
- Shakespeare's sonnets
- Shakespeare Apocrypha
- Shakespeare Programming Language
- Shakespearean comedy
- Shakespearean history
- Shakespearean problem play
- Shakespearean tragedy
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Sir Thomas More (play)
- Sonnet 116
- Sonnet 117
- Sonnet 121
- Sonnet 122
- Sonnet 138
- Sonnet 150
- Sonnet 151
- Sonnet 152
- Sonnet 154
- Sonnet 46
- Sonnet 47
- Sonnet 48
- Sonnet 49
- Sonnet 50
- Sonnet 51
- Sonnet 52
- Sonnet 53
- Sonnet 54
- Sonnet 56
- Sonnet 57
- Sonnet 58
- Sonnet 59
- Sonnet 61
- Sonnet 62
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Tales from Shakespeare
- The Birth of Merlin
- The Comedy of Errors
- The History of Cardenio
- The London Prodigal
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The Oxford Shakespeare
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- The Puritan
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Winter's Tale
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)