{"id":39,"date":"2005-04-22T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/shakespeare-portrait-found-to-be-a-fake\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:39:31","slug":"shakespeare-portrait-found-to-be-a-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/shakespeare-portrait-found-to-be-a-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Portrait found to be a fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060315004018\/http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4471515.stm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakespeare portrait &#8216;is a fake&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Flower Portrait of William Shakespeare (owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company) has been found to have been painted in the early 19th century and not the &#8220;1609&#8221; date inscribed on it. Through paint analysis, microphotography, ultraviolet imaging and x-rays, the portrait has been determined to have come from between 1814 and 1840.<\/p>\n<p>[Comments are closed on older posts. If you wish to make a comment, please contact Lara via the link in the sidebar.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare portrait &#8216;is a fake&#8217; The Flower Portrait of William Shakespeare (owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company) has been found to have been painted in the early 19th century and not the &#8220;1609&#8221; date inscribed on it. Through paint analysis, microphotography, ultraviolet imaging and x-rays, the portrait has been determined&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/shakespeare-portrait-found-to-be-a-fake\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14794,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}