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Title: Shakespeare the player, and other papers illustrative of Shakespeare's individuality
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cargill, Alexander
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: London : Constable and company ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ad been dead for nineteenyears, his portrait must have been from a copy—prob-ably that in the possession of Sir William DAvenant, after-wards known as the Chandos portrait. The * Stace Portrait What is known as Staces portrait of Shakespeare isreminiscent, like that by Zoust, of the Chandos likeness, inso far as the arrangement of the figure and dress and theexpression of the features are in some points not unlike.The history of this picture is peculiar in that it has had anunusual spirituous aroma about it. Discovered early in thepresent century in a public-house, i The Three Pigeons,Shoreditch, where it hung for more than forty years, itsglory c all unbeknown, it was sold by auction at anotherpublic-house, 4 The Old Green Dragon, Wilson Street,Moorfields. Its ultimate destination, however, was farotherwise, if it really was the case that its purchaser,having formed such an attachment to the portrait, securedit by lock and chain in a costly case to be buried with himat his decease.
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t w 5 ^ 0 ^ X C »( B Q ~g — © X 2 © < v t^ pq 0 ^ H © K «■ «! 1 PHYSIOGNOMY AND PORTRAITS 49 Gillilands Portrait If this picture has any merit at all it is in its bald antiquity.In this curious likeness of Shakespeare, which was discoveredabout ninety years ago, there is at least a guid auld grey-bairdie bit o a man, as we say in Scotland : nothing more.The purchaser, Thomas Gilliland, writing in 1827, declaredit was his impression that the portrait was painted about thetime of Shakespeare, either by an artist who had seen him,or who copied a genuine portrait of the poet now lost, asthis likeness differs from all the portraits published orknown. If gathered together, the lost portraits of Shake-speare would form an interesting gallery. The Zincke Portrait The earth hath bubbles as the water hath, and this ofthem, is the not inappropriate footnote which the engraverprinted on his copy of the likeness of Shakespeare knownby the above name. Here again, for the third time, is

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