William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1856. An oval frame is painted round Shakespeare, who looks inscrutably at the viewer, with a bald forehead, moustache and small beard, wearing a black coat with white collar and a hoop earring in his left ear.

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Wealth and Poverty Adelaide O'Keeffe
Three years after this, on 16 June 1840 (a week before a special meeting of the Fund's board), she composed a letter setting out for consideration a reformed and improved method of distributing payments. This...

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