Birche Gallery

William Shakespeare (formerly known as), ca. 1770. Creator: Richard Earlom

William Shakespeare (formerly known as), ca. 1770. [Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman, possibly Thomas Overbury, based on a painting once attributed to Cornelius Johnson (or Janssen), believed in the nineteenth-century to represent Shakespeare at the age of forty]

© Heritage Art/Heritage Images

18th Century, Anon, Anonymous, Art, Arts, B And, B And W, B W, Birche, Birche Henry, Black And, Black And White, Britain, British, Century, Clothes, Clothing, Cornelius, Cornelius Janssen Van Ceulen, Dress, Earlom, Earlom Richard, Eighteenth Century, Elizabethan, Guy, Henry, Henry Birche, Heritage Art, Janssen Portrait, Janssen Van Ceulen, Janssen Van Ceulen Cornelius, Male, Man, Men, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Mezzotint, Museum, Neck Ruff, People, Picture, Pictures, Richard, Richard Earlom, Ruff, Shakespeare, Shakespeare William, Shakspeare, The Met, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, White, William, William Shakespeare