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English School, 1602
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English School, 1602

Portrait of a gentleman, formerly suggested to be William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), bust-length, in a black coat with a white tunic and a golden signet ring

已結束2014年10月30日

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English School, 1602
Portrait of a gentleman, formerly suggested to be William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), bust-length, in a black coat with a white tunic and a golden signet ring
inscribed and dated ‘1602 / ÆT. SVÆ : 25’ (upper left), and ‘Sperando Ferendo viuo vinco :’ (upper right)
oil on panel
23¾ x 18 1/8 in. (60.4 x 46.1 cm.)
with an unidentified monogram (on the signet)

Private collection, England, circa 1814.
Private collection, Belgium.

專家說明

This early portrait, seen by James Boaden some ten years prior to the publication of his catalogue of portraits of Shakespeare, was related by him to the celebrated Droeshout print, the only universally accepted likeness of the Bard. The enigmatic Latin inscription can be translated as ‘Hoping, Enduring, I live, I conquer’. A similarly cryptic motto, ‘Principum amicitias!’, albeit with a very different meaning, appears in the Cobbe Portrait, recently hailed as a newly-discovered life portrait of Shakespeare.