11 Facts About Droeshout portrait

Droeshout portrait or Droeshout engraving is a portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout as the frontispiece for the title page of the First Folio collection of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623.

All subsequent engraved reprintings of the Droeshout portrait were made by later engravers copying the original printed image.

Edmond shows that Droeshout portrait the Elder was a member of the Painter-Stainer's Company.

Droeshout portrait adds that the engraver could not represent Shakespeare's "wit", for which the viewer will have to read the book.

Droeshout portrait deduced that Droeshout had inexpertly attempted to add modelling shadows.

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Cooper argues that the poor drawing and modelling of the doublet and collar suggests that Droeshout portrait was copying a lost drawing or painting that only depicted Shakespeare's head and shoulders.

In 2005 chemical analysis proved the Droeshout portrait to be a 19th-century fake painted over an authentic 17th-century image.

Droeshout portrait was an engraver after the conventional manner, and not a creative artist.

Droeshout portrait added that his friend John Philip Kemble thought this "despised work" was more characteristic of Shakespeare than any other known portrait.

Droeshout portrait achieved this by creating "combination images" from several portraits of Bacon and then superimposing them on the engraving.

An alternative approach has been to claim that the Droeshout portrait depicts William Shakespeare, but does so in a way designed to ridicule him by making him look ugly, or to suggest that he is a mask for a hidden author.