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We all know what William Shakespeare looked like: similar to a hippie uncle - balding, moustached, longish hair in back. How do we know? Mostly from an engraving by Martin Droeshout that appeared with the First Folio, the collection of Shakespeare's work that was published in 1623, seven years after...
But engravings are typically copied from another source, like a drawing or painting. Shakespeareans have been tantalized for generations by the possibility that a genuine life portrait of the man survives somewhere. Now Stanley Wells, professor emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University and one of the world's most...
The painting has languished for centuries outside Dublin at Newbridge House, home base of the Cobbe family, where until recently no one suspected it might be a portrait of the Bard. Three years ago, Alec Cobbe, who had inherited much of the collection in the 1980s and placed it in...
The Cobbe collection includes works handed down from the family of the third Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's only known patron. (The Bard made most of his money the hard way, by running a theater company.) Shakespeare dedicated to the earl both of his long-narrative poems, Venus and Adonis...
When the CFTC's acting director of enforcement, Stephen Obie, was asked what the most outrageous use of investor money he's come across has been, his list was appropriately wacky. "The craziest things we've found recently," Obie said, "are a bust of Julius Caesar, an extensive garden-gnome...