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This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
Shakespeare's funerary monument, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. The Shakespeare funerary monument is a memorial to William Shakespeare located inside Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, the church in which Shakespeare was baptised and where he was buried in the chancel two days after his death. [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. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
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 exact date of its construction is not known, but must have been between Shakespeare's death in 1616 and 1623, when it is mentioned in the First Folio of the playwright's works. The monument, by Gerard Johnson, is mounted on a wall above Shakespeare's grave. It features a bust of the poet, who holds a quill pen in one hand and a piece of ...
William's 'sorrow over pal's death' and 'bleak midwinter' January 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM ... Pictures is Luke Littler, the 17-year-old world darts champion, cradling his trophy at home in Warrington ...
All eyes were on Prince William, 41, when he stood center stage at the 2023 Earthshot Prize Awards, which took place earlier this month at the Mediacorp Theater in Singapore. On November 7, the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...