Chandos portrait
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The Chandos portrait is an oil painted portrait thought to depict William Shakespeare. Painted between 1600 and 1610, it may have served as the basis for the engraved portrait of Shakespeare used in t
William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
Engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, on the title page of the first publication of his works, the First Folio, shows distinct similarities when compared to the oil painting.
The "Soest Portrait" of Shakespeare, painted c. 1667
The "Chesterfield Portrait" of Shakespeare, painted c. 1679
John Taylor (painter)
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John Taylor was an English artist who has been put forth as the most likely painter of the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare. All of John Taylor's other paintings have since become lost.
Chandos portrait
…does depict the writer. The first known reference to the painting is in a note written in 1719 by George Vertue, who stated that it was painted by John Taylor, a respected member of the Painter-Stainers' Company, who may also have been the same John Taylor who acted with the Children of Paul's. Vertue refers…
Portrait of John Taylor (1655)
The Potkin Group (1632) depicting Renter Warden John Taylor (left), Master John Potkin (middle), and Upper Warden Thomas Carleton