First up, from The Times Online:
Is this the real Shakespeare at last?
A PORTRAIT owned for nearly 300 years by a family will tomorrow be claimed as the only known picture of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime.
No other image, executed at first hand, is thought to exist of Britain
I don’t know…what does David Starkey have to say about it? (wink)
My first unbidden thought was that he actually somewhat resembles Joseph Fiennes in “Shakespeare in Love”!