but you may also be wrong. That is the Chandos portrait and we have no idea who the subject is. The Chandos portrait, so called because it was owned by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second duke of Buckingham and Chandos was auctioned off when he lost his fortune in 1848. It sold for 355 guineas. Nothing is known of the portrait’s provenance before it came into the Chandos family in the mid 1700s and we have no evidence to say it is of Shakespeare. The collar indicates it was painted between 1590 and 1610 when that style was popular, the earring suggests bohemia and the black clothes indicate prosperity as it cost a lot to dye clothes black although it’s likely the very wealthy would have been wearing a lot of jewels sown into their clothes.
are taken, the first is the Droeshout engraving on the front of the First Folio. This however was not done from life but there is the endorsement of Shakespeare’s contemporary Ben Johnson. The other likeness is a life size statue in the Holy Trinity church where he’s buried. Gheerart Janssen created it and, being installed in 1623 meant it was seen by people who knew Shakespeare. It was however whitewashed in 1773; destroying most of the features as they were painted on.
more. The Elizabethans had a total disregard for consistency when spelling in general but Shakespeare’s name gets particularly butchered. Whether in legal documents or Shakespeare’s signature written by his own hand the spelling varies from Willm Shakp to Shackspeare. We call him Shakespeare today because of the importance of the dedications made by Shakespeare to his patron the Earl of Southampton when two of his narrative poems were published. And the First Folio proves its importance once again and decided on Shakespeare.
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