Original Shakespeare portrait unveiled
A portrait of William Shakespeare - believed to be the only surviving picture of the English playwright painted during his lifetime - has been unveiled in London.
The painting dates from 1610, when the Bard was 46.
It has been owned by the same family for centuries, but was only recently identified.
Art restorer Alec Cobbe says his family took possession of it when a cousin married the great granddaughter of Shakespeare's only literary patron, Henry Wriothesley.
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