The Changing Face of William Shakespeare is on view through May 1. It is organized by Declan Kiely, Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at The Morgan Library & Museum.
Caption for the Cobbe Portrait: Artist Unknown, Seventeenth Century (c.1610), William Shakespeare, oil on panel. 24 ¼ x 14 ¾ inches (53.9 x 37.5 cm). Collection of Archbishop Charles Cobbe (1686– 1765), Cobbe Collection
A documentary entitled Battle of Wills, a film by Anne Henderson, takes the question up from a different vantge point (and painting) with another set of questions posed:
- Battle of Wills tells a story of obsession and intrigue in the art world. Lloyd Sullivan believes he owns the only portrait of Shakespeare done from life, created in 1603 by an ancestor who was a bit actor in Shakespeare’s troupe. Thirteen scientific tests have proven that the Sanders portrait is an unaltered painting from the early 17th century. But is it Shakespeare? Lloyd Sullivan is risking his lifetime’s savings to prove that it is. Battle of Wills travels from the high tech labs of North America, to the art galleries of Bond Street and the wind-swept castles of the English Midlands to unravel the mystery behind a painting that shook the art world.
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