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Shakespeare and His Friends at the Mermaid Tavern (1850, oil on canvas) by John Faed.The painting depicts (from left in back) Joshua Sylvester, John Selden, Francis Beaumont, (seated at table from left) William Camden, Thomas Sackville, John Fletcher, Sir Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Samuel Daniel, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Earl of Southampton, Sir Robert Cotton, and ...
The Wadlow portrait Believed to be a portrait of William Shakespeare painted in 1595. [20] It was bought in the late 1960s by Peter Wadlow from a firm of picture restorers and art dealers called Pryse Hughes. [21] Peter Wadlow was told that it was painted in 1595. The painting has the number 31 at the top left. William Shakespeare was 31 in ...
The Infant The Schoolboy The Lover The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world's a stage from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age. The set of paintings are in pen and ink ...
William Shakespeare is an 1864 work by Victor Hugo, written in his 13th year of exile. The title is misleading; the true subject of the work is the writers that Hugo considered "the greatest geniuses of all time."
A 2008 documentary by Anne Henderson sought to tell the story of the Canadian-owned portrait of Shakespeare. [8] The film both highlighted some of the technical and financial difficulties of caring for the painting, and showcased the controversy that surrounds the Sanders Portrait and other portraits claiming to be life likenesses of William Shakespeare.
The English artist and writer Wyndham Lewis produced one work of art, a portfolio of drawings titled "Timon of Athens" (1913), a preliminary example of the style of art that would come to be called Vorticist. [51] Danish author Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) has a story within the tale titled "The Deluge of Norderney" in her Seven Gothic Tales (1934).
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] 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. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").