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Tue 03 Mar 2009'Shakespeare' portrait hung for years in Irish big house
THE PORTRAIT at the centre of claims that it is the only picture painted of William Shakespeare during his lifetime hung for years, unrecognised, on the walls of a country house near Dublin, it has emerged.
The portrait, which was painted in 1610, six years before the bard’s death, has been in the possession of the Cobbe family since the early 18th century. It is currently owned by the Cobbe family trust.
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