LONDON - An Elizabethan portrait thought by many to depict the young William Shakespeare is not the Bard of Avon, experts at the National Portrait Gallery have concluded.

One of the first things he saw was a famous portrait of the Bard that usually hangs in the renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. "His jaw dropped," said Edmondson.

LONDON | The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday's unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery. Experts say it is the only portr… ...

London, April 22: A portrait of William Shakespeare, claimed by many to have been painted during his lifetime, is a 19th-century fake, the National Portrait Gallery announced last night. The discovery ...

BARD LUCK, PORTRAIT'S NOT OF WILL. A FAMOUS oil painting believed for centuries to be of William Shakespeare isn't him after all, experts said yesterday. By. Tom Parry Special correspondent.

LONDON — The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday’s unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery. Experts say it is the only ...

LONDON -- The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday's unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery. Experts say it is the only ...

This portrait of Shakespeare is thought to have been painted when the writer was 46 - just six years before his death in 1616 Although debate is still raging, the world's top expert on the bard ...

Portraits of Shakespeare adorn countless copies of his plays alone. This image of the Bard in popular circulation gives him thick, black hair, a high forehead, a pointy mustache and a scruffy goatee.

The painting is one of a series by Ralph Heimans, who painted the Queen’s diamond jubilee portrait, to mark the Hogarth Shakespeare collection – a series of novels celebrating the Bard’s ...