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We went to the Yale Museum of British Art, which had on display six portraits purported to be of William Shakespeare. One was a painting of an actor dressed up as Shakespeare, made a couple decades after Will's death -- not a fraud: they were very clear that this was an actor; two are probably just someone else who maybe looks a little like Shakespeare, one is probably actually genuine, and two are deliberate frauds.

One of the frauds is the Flower portrait, donated to the Shakespeare Museum by Sir Desmond Flower.

It looks like this:


It's painted over a picture of the Virgin Mary, actually, and, if you look at it, it's a pretty bad job of it, too.

Can anyone make an icon of this which says "My Shakspr iz pastede on yay!"

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Date: 2006-06-27 06:05 am (UTC)
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You're welcome! Consider it payment for sending me to King Lear tonight; it was phenomenal.

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