Shakespeare's 'man of the sonnets' revealed

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left Elizabeth Vernon Countess of Southampton by an Unknown artist circa 1620. right X-Ray of Elizabeth Vernon Countess of Southampton by an Unknown artist circa 1620. Photo by National Portrait Gallery London
[left] Elizabeth Vernon, Countess of Southampton by an Unknown artist, circa 1620. [right] X-Ray of Elizabeth Vernon, Countess of Southampton by an Unknown artist, circa 1620. Photo by © National Portrait Gallery, London

Bristol University students researching for a new display of Tudor portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery have uncovered a ghost figure which may be Shakespeare’s only known patron Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, which had been subsequently painted over with a portrait of Elizabeth Vernon, Southampton’s wife.


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