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	The Rise and Fall of James Brydges, Duke of Chandos
		In certain respects the life-style of "Princely Chandos" was, as contemporaries recognized, as grand as that of a German electoral prince.
		In 1720 however, the year in which the rebuilding of the palace was completed, the almost miraculous rise in the fortunes of Chandos (as Brydges was styled from April 1717) crashed abruptly in what became known as the South Sea Bubble financial disaster.
		Chandos died in 1744, and his third wife Lydia died in 1750.
	www.baroquemusic.org /chandos.html (1298 words)

	Shakespeare's Portraits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Chandos portrait was no doubt painted when Shakespeare was alive, unlike the posthumous painting, the Droeshout.
		Most scholars classify the Flower portrait as a forgery made in the 18th century.
		4) The Faithorne Portrait - The Droeshout engraving was copied by William Faithorne for the frontispiece of the 1655 edition of the "Rape of Lucrece", and the 5) Marshall Portrait was an imitation of the Droeshout portrait for the cover of the 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /faq/portraitsfaq.html (409 words)

	The Hindu : The real bard?
		The institute, in its report released after seven years of research, conclusively said that the oak on which the portrait was painted was from "the Baltic region, that the earliest possible date for the execution of the painting was 1597 and that a date of execution from 1603 onwards was plausible".
		The Chandos Portrait, oil on canvas — an authentic Jacobean painting (National Portrait Gallery, London), painted around 1610 by one John Taylor (he died in 1651) — is one of the most popular and widely reproduced images claiming to represent Shakespeare.
		The portraits are merely the imagined images of Shakespeare and their importance is not from their absolute truthfulness of the looks of the poet.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mag/2002/03/10/stories/2002031000100200.htm (986 words)

	Shakespeare's Dark Lady - Portrait
		The so-called Chandos portrait, allegedly of Shakespeare, appears to date from the early sixteenth century and shows its subject around the age of forty.
		The Martin Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare has often been claimed to be the most authentic portrait of the Bard on the grounds that those who knew Shakespeare approved it for publication in the First Folio in 1623, seven years after the Bard's death.
		The sitter for this portrait is unknown and there is no evidence that this might be Shakespeare other than the date of birth (1563 or 1564) implied by the inscription and an uncanny resemblance to the much maligned Droeshout portrait of the Bard.
	www.shakespearesdarklady.com /portrait.html (933 words)

	To be or not to be the Bard's portrait? - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		A painting known as the Soest portrait has also been promoted as a true likeness, but it is now described as a memorial portrait; that is, it was painted a half- century after Shakespeare's death.
		The oil known as the Grafton portrait is inscribed with the sitter's age, 24, and the date of the painting, 1588, which would be correct for Shakespeare.
		As early as 1719, an engraver and antiquarian, George Vertue, noted that it was a portrait of Shakespeare painted by John Taylor and that it was bequeathed by Taylor to Sir William Davenant, Shakespeare's godson and himself a mid-17th-century playwright of renown.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/03/03/news/shakespeare.php (1078 words)

	Take a BrainSip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The "Chandos" portrait is one of the most famous portraits believed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
		It has not been possible to solve the question of who painted the portrait and whether it really depicts Shakespeare, whose other known contemporary image is the crude engraving in the posthumous First Folio (1623), made by Martin Droeshout, who had never seen Shakespeare and was likely working from a portrait that is now lost.
		It is known that before the Duke of Chandos acquired it, the portrait was owned by Shakespeare's godson, William Davenant (1606–1668), who claimed to be the playwright's illegitimate son, according to the gossip chronicler John Aubrey.
	chandos-portrait.mestskadoprava.sk (221 words)

	On the occasion of its 150th Ann
		The National Portrait Gallery celebrates its 150th year in 2006 with a year-long programme of special events, exhibitions and displays highlighting its past, present and future as the national collection of portraits of British sitters and as the world's leading museum of portraiture.
		With portraits, costumes, manuscripts and jewellery from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it will be the biggest ever exhibition to focus on Shakespeare in his own time, drawing directly on original records relating to the playwright and his contemporaries.
		Alongside the 'Chandos' portrait, five other 'contender' portraits purporting to represent Shakespeare and once thought to derive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will be displayed together for the first time.
	www.luxurytraveler.com /national_portrait_gallery_150th_anniv.html (1534 words)

	v.IX i.3 - Art
		Chandos, Attributed to John Taylor, William Shakespeare?, Known as the Chandos portrait, ca.
		An 1856 painting called the Chandos portrait, most noted as an authentic painting, has yet to be undeniably proven and is still very much debated to be a true work of his likeness.
		The Chandos and five other key portraits, along with materials related to Shakespeare's life in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, his contemporaries and Elizabethan theater and stagecraft, were recently presented at The Yale Center for British Art.
	www.timmag.com /v9i3/art.php3 (680 words)

	Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: The Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare
		Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: The Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare
		The Chandos Portrait of Shakspeare [sic] being the next lot offered, the greatest possible anxiety and interest was here exhibited by the company present.
		This renowned portrait is presumed to be the work of Burbage, the first actor of Richard III, who is known to have handled the pencil.
	www.dukesofbuckingham.org /places/stowe/1848_sale/chandos_shakespeare.htm (554 words)

	The Sanders Portrait
		Tiramani analyses the costume of the sitter in the Sanders Portrait in an effort to either confirm or refute the claim that it depicts William Shakespeare.
		An announcement by the National Portrait Gallery in London (April 21, 2005) cast further doubt on the authority of the existing portraits of Shakespeare.
		The Chandos portrait, so-called because it was once owned by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, is typical of early 17th century portraiture.
	www.canadianshakespeares.ca /multimedia/imagegallery/m_i_13.cfm (2462 words)

	British Gallery unveils Shakespeare image - Boston.com
		Britain's National Portrait Gallery announced Wednesday that a canvas by an obscure 17th-century artist is -- most likely -- the one true likeness of the playwright painted in his lifetime.
		Similarities in style to portraits of other Elizabethan writers strengthened the argument that the painting is of Shakespeare, who died in 1616, she said.
		The National Portrait Gallery has spent a year and a half conducting tests on several alleged Shakespeare portraits, subjecting them to X-rays, ultraviolet examination, microphotography and pigment analysis.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/03/01/british_gallery_unveils_shakespeare_image (686 words)

	Chandos portrait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Chandos" portrait is one of the most famous of the portraits that may depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
		The portrait was given to the National Portrait Gallery, London on its foundation in 1856 and is listed no.1 in its collection.
		In 2006, Tarnya Cooper of the NPG completed a three and a half year study of the purported Shakespeare portraits and concluded that the Chandos portrait was the most likely to be a representation of Shakespeare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chandos_portrait (363 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| What's on? \| Searching for Shakespeare
		In 1856 the first portrait presented to the newly-founded National Portrait Gallery was a compelling painting considered to be of William Shakespeare, known as the "Chandos" portrait.
		On the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery's 150th anniversary in 2006, an exhibition on the biography and portraiture will be staged at the Gallery.
		Alongside the Chandos portrait, five other "contender" portraits purporting to represent Shakespeare will be displayed together for the first time.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/woshakespeare.asp (224 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A portrait which was widely thought to be that of William Shakespeare is not the Bard after all, the National Portrait Gallery said today.
		The portrait, on loan from the John Rylands Library in Manchester, depicts a youth with curly brown hair and grey eyes, wearing a sumptuous silk or satin scarlet jacket worn by European men between the 15th and 17th centuries.
		The Grafton Portrait acquired its name in the early 20th century after it was believed to have been bequeathed by one of the Dukes of Grafton to a yeoman farmer.
	u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=66540&pt=n (599 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Which one is the real Shakespeare?
		The Chandos portrait was the first painting given to the gallery, in 1856.
		The sitter of the Grafton portrait was the same age as Shakespeare, according to its inscription, but is unlikely to be him.
		The Chandos portrait, of a sensitive, almond-eyed fellow with a gold hoop in his left ear and a receding head of hair, has not always been regarded as having quite the look appropriate for England's national poet.
	english.people.com.cn /200603/03/eng20060303_247589.html (575 words)

	Searching for Shakespeare
		Discussion of their authenticity is disappointingly scant, and the Chandos portrait is presented, in one big fait accompli, as the obvious frontrunner.
		Wall labels tell us that the Chandos portrait is of the correct style for the period (around 1600 to 1610), and that the subject is the correct age (about 40).
		Manchester’s Grafton portrait hits the nail on the head, presenting a 24-year old man in 1588; the wood is old enough to support the date.
	www.artandphilosophy.com /060319.html (995 words)

	Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The image has two picture sources: the Chandos portrait (so called because it was once owned by the Dukes of Chandos) and the engraving by Martin Droeshout printed on the title page of the First Folio of Shakespeare's works published in 1623.
		The elder was born in the 1560’s and the younger in 1601.
		This crayon copy of the Chandos Portrait was made by Ozias Humphrey in 1783 at the request of Edmund Malone, the Shakespearian editor and scholar who was particularly concerned to dispose of myth and legend.
	www.shakespeare.org.uk /content/view/16/16 (1547 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Art & Design - The very image of Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This “Flower” portrait was supposed by some to be the original from which Droeshout worked but, like most old forgeries, it now looks a feeble effort.
		This is the Portrait Gallery’s own “Chandos” portrait, which was its first acquisition in 1856 and enjoys the gallery number NPG1.
		This is tenuous enough, and yet the Chandos portrait does stand apart from the other candidates, for it conveys real force of character and has unusual features – the unstrung collar and the earring – that are shared by none of its rivals but are seen in other writer-portraits of the time.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/7c35dac2-ac69-11da-8226-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=ed895682-3008-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html (1085 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : Shakespeare — it is his books not his looks
		The Soest and Flower portraits are apparently copies of the sixth and only probable authentic likeness, the Chandos portrait.
		The Chandos has been scientifically tested as of the right age, and looks like the contemporary funeral bust in Stratford church, commissioned by and therefore attested by family and friends.
		The Chandos portrait shows a man in his 40s with high domed forehead, bearded face and prominent nose.
	www.hindu.com /2006/03/04/stories/2006030405291100.htm (795 words)

	Newsletter 297 - 3 - 29 - 2006 - CJR Fine Arts Forum
		A painting known as the Soest portrait has also been promoted as a true likeness, but it is now described as a memorial portrait; that is, it was painted a half-century after Shakespeare's death.
		The oil known as the Grafton portrait is inscribed with the sitter's age, 24, and the date of the painting, 1588, which would be correct for Shakespeare.
		Hammerschmidt-Hummel won headlines in Britain for her claim, it was quickly dismissed by scholars from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford and by officials at the National Portrait Gallery, who pointed out that the Garrick bust is an 18th-century sculpture, that the death mask's authenticity has not been proved and that the Flower portrait is false.
	www.art-newsletter.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=478 (4718 words)

	Britain's National Portrait Gallery unveils 'true' image of William Shakespeare - Turkish Daily News Mar 03, 2006
		On Wednesday, Britain's National Portrait Gallery announced that a painting by an obscure 17th-century artist is -- probably -- the one true likeness of the playwright painted in his lifetime.
		The portrait -- the first painting presented to the gallery when it opened in 1856 -- forms the center of the "Searching for Shakespeare" exhibition, which opened on Thursday.
		Attributed to a little-known artist named John Taylor and dated by experts to between 1600 and 1610, the Chandos portrait provides an unusually bohemian image of Shakespeare: dressed in fl, sporting a gold hoop earring and with the strings on his white collar rakishly untied.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=37157 (768 words)

	A New Shakespeare Portrait
		This is the new Sanders portrait claimed to be of William Shakespeare.
		The sitter in both portraits is happy and seems to be whistling in the Chess Portrait by Karl van Mander.
		I am reminded in my own collection of portrait art that several paintings and many sketches were executed "from memory." I have actually seen artists draw faces and figures they have simply studied, for a few moments on the street or in a public place, later in their studio.
	www2.localaccess.com /marlowe/portrait.htm (1029 words)

	SHAKSPER 2006: Chandos Portrait Probably Genuine
		The Grafton portrait, which contains Shakespeare's dates-Shakespeare was 24 in 1588 as noted in the portrait-the reason for discarding this as authentic was the costly tunic the sitter wore.
		There is certainly something in that, but I have not heard of any extraordinary claims made by Davenant with regard to the portrait; it is merely recorded that he owned it, and, as Shakespeare's godson, and, in some senses, his successor, there is nothing very remarkable in his possession of it.
		Publicity has tended to centre on the 'authenticity' of the Chandos image, though I have to say the exhibition is incredibly worthwhile for the additional items it brings together in one room.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/2006/0132.html (529 words)

	Shakespeare portraits
		The 'Flower' portrait of Shakespeare executed on an elm panel is the earliest painting known definitely to be of Shakespeare.
		Attributed to the Italian painter Zucchero who died in the same year as Shakespeare, this life-size oval portrait was painted on a wooden panel.
		The Cornelius Jansen is possibly an early copy of the Chandos portrait, although a much more attractive theory is that the artist was in London by 1610 when he was commissioned by the Earl of Southampton to paint Shakespeare.
	www.jrp.dial.pipex.com /PG/pieces/shakeapeare_portraits.shtml (263 words)

	The Man With Two Faces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This portrait turned up unexpectedly in a remodeling project at Marlowe college, Corpus Christi Cambridge, in the mid 1950s, in a stack of wallboard that had been plastered over.
		This is the same portrait professionally restored and it now has a place of honor in the dinning room at Marlowe's college.
		This is the famous Chandos Portrait said Shakespeare and said by A. Wraight, William Urry and others to be of an older Marlowe.
	www2.localaccess.com /marlowe/2faces.htm (282 words)

	NeuroNet - Portraits of Shakespeare
		Two portraits of Shakespeare are of interest in the context of recent suggestions that relate to the habit of smoking in the late 16th and early 17th century in England.
		The darkened features on the lower lip of Shakespeare in the "Flower" portrait may (at least potentially) be associated with the use of a pipe, held on the left side of the mouth.
		The fact that a similar brown mark is also apparently present on the left lower lip of Shakespeare in the "Chandos" portrait would seem to support the view that Shakespeare had been a smoker at some time in his life.
	www.neuronet.co.za /shakespeare4.html (624 words)

	How Shall We Know Thee? Searching for Shakespeare's Likeness - New York Times
		Although its austere monumentality is in sharp contrast with the Chandos portrait, it does have the high forehead, beard and mustache (but no earring) of that rendition.
		As for the remaining five portraits, all regarded at different points as having been a definitive image of Shakespeare, for some there is a date but no certainty of the subject; for others, a possibility of the subject but a date that doesn't match the period of his life.
		While the portraits are the raison d'être of the show, the additional documents — maps, books, pamphlets, parish and public records, theater materials, letters, first printings of plays and poems by Shakespeare and by his contemporaries, and books (like Ovid's "Metamorphoses") that furnished plots for the plays — make a rich background for the paintings.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/23/arts/design/23yale.html?ex=1308715200&en=65431f2be388fb9a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1185 words)

	Showcases - Landmarks in Printing :: Shakespeare's First Folio
		The Chandos portrait is believed to have been painted by John Taylor around 1610, when Shakespeare would have been aged 46.
		The reputation of the Chandos portrait as a plausible likeness rests on the belief that it was formerly owned by a poet, playwright and theatre manager called William Davenant, once rumoured to have been Shakespeare’s illegitimate son.
		There is a clear resemblance between the Chandos portrait and Droeshout’s engraving, but their true relationship remains as shrouded in speculation as the rest of Shakespeare’s life.
	portico.bl.uk /onlinegallery/themes/landmarks/shakespeare.html (1025 words)

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