Comments on: What’s Wrong with this Picture? https://metabunker.dk/2009/03/10/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/ by matthias wivel & friends Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Matthias Wivel https://metabunker.dk/2009/03/10/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:43:58 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=1797#comment-485 There’s an interesting refutation by Katherine Duncan-Jones of the theory that the Cobbe picture portrays Shakespeare in the TLS this week. She makes a very good case that the sitter might be a Sir Thomas Overby. While I agree that the case for Shakespeare is, well, shaky, I’m also skeptical about her Duncan-Jones’ identification.

To my eyes, the authentic portrait of Overby at the Bodleian Library at Oxford shows a different man and a painter as skillful as the one who did the Cobbe portrait would have captured the likeness better. Especially the nose is clearly different.

Of course, if he were working after an inferior model–he certainly wasn’t painting after the Bodleian picture as Duncan-Jones contends–it might be possible, but I’m still uneasy about it.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5931174.ece

]]> By: Matthias Wivel https://metabunker.dk/2009/03/10/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-484 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:26:55 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=1797#comment-484 I don’t think it’s a forgery. The provenance seems solid and apparently several experts have vouched for its authenticity, but who knows? It’ll be interesting to see how things develop…

]]> By: marie-louise Berner https://metabunker.dk/2009/03/10/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:05:16 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=1797#comment-481 er det en forfalskning? is it a false picture? han er lidt for “pæn”. Kan det være en forskønnet udgave der tager udgangspunkt i de to andre portrætter?

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