The Grafton portrait is an anonymous Elizabethan panel painting of an unidentified young man who has been proposed, without confirmation, to be a likeness of William Shakespeare. The panel carries inscriptions giving his age as twenty four and the year 1588, meaning the sitter would have been born around 1564, the same year as Shakespeare. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Grafton portrait is an anonymous Elizabethan panel painting, depicting a young man who has been suggested to be William Shakespeare.
- infobox year field: 1588
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A nine-month specialist analysis of the oil painting by the National Portrait Gallery
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The Grafton portrait is an anonymous Elizabethan panel painting, depicting a young man who has been suggested to be William Shakespeare. It bears the inscriptions 'Ae suae 24' and '1.5.8.8', indicating that the subject was in his
In Group: Portraits of Men and Youths, Wikipedia intro
The Grafton portrait is an anonymous Elizabethan panel painting, depicting a young man who has been suggested to be William Shakespeare.
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