BBC News reports that the first portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime has been unveiled in London. An art restorer recognized a painting in the National Portrait Gallery as a copy of a painting his family had owned for centuries. He and Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells subjected the painting to a battery of tests; tree-ring-dating to determine the age of the wood panel, X-ray examination, and infrared reflectography, which produced convincing evidence that the panel dated from around 1610 and was the source for the Folger painting of Shakespeare, as well as other portraits.
It is a fascinating story. Don't you think the portrait looks amazingly like Joseph Fiennes as the Bard in Shakespeare in Love?
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