COBBE PORTRAIT, above
This a Channel 4 essay on the Cobbe portrait:
This Cobbe portrait has experts in a quandary and declaring this painting to be the only one executed during William Shakespeare's lifetime.
"The painting has hung on the walls of properties owned by the Cobbe family for about 300 years. The sitter has always been unknown, although there was an erroneous thought that it might be Sir Walter Raleigh. In 2002, art restorer Alec Cobbe, joint heir of the Cobbe estate, was at the National Portrait Gallery's Searching for Shakespeare exhibition and came upon a painting known as the Folger portrait (right), which itself, until 70 years ago, had been thought to be a life portrait of Shakespeare. The similarities between the two were obvious and Cobbe rang Wells immediately, setting in motion more than two years of extensive art historical, literary and scientific research. The result is the firm belief that the Folger painting is a copy of the Cobbe original. It is also likely to have been used by the teenage engraver who produced one of the most recognisable of Shakespeare images - the copper engraving of a bald, round-headed man on the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623."
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