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.
Portrait of John Taylor (1655)
The Chandos portrait, believed to have been painted by Taylor
The Potkin Group (1632) depicting Renter Warden John Taylor (left), Master John Potkin (middle), and Upper Warden Thomas Carleton
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's
John Taylor (painter)
…John Taylor (c. 1580–1653) 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. Taylor was born around 1580 and he was probably a child actor with the Children of Paul's…
John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 book The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum. It features spears as a pun on the family name.
Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon