The Flower Portrait of William Shakespeare is
now considered to be a fake, painted 200 years after Shakespeare's
death, rather than during Shakespeare's lifetime, as had
been originally thought. A 2005 investigation of the portrait
lead to conclusion that it was painted in the 1800s.
The name comes from it's previous owner, Sir Desmond Flower,
who bequethed it to the Royal Shakespeare Company. The
painting depicts Shakespeare gazing out of the picture
and wearing a wide white collar. The painting has a signed date
of 1609, but many art experts had been suspicious of it's provenance
before.
The portrait was painted on top of a sixteenth-century painting
that depicts a Madonna and child with John the Baptist. This is
a cropped version of the original portrait.
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