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<p>Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Vere,_17th_Earl_of_Oxford" class="extiw" title="w:Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford">Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford</a> (1550-1604), formerly owned by the Duke of St. Albans, currently in the possession of the Minos Miller Trust Fund.
</p><p>NOTE: The identification and attribution of this portrait is suspect on the grounds of fashion and artistic style, according to Sir Roy Strong. Burris, Barbara, "The Ashbourne Portrait: Part II", <i>Shakespeare Matters</i> Winter 2002, pp. 20-22, n. 31: "The dating of the Ashbourne painting by costume which sets the Ashbourne in its proper time frame of circa 1579-80 raises the issue of the incongruity of the costume of the St. Albans portrait with the inscription denoting that it is a portrait of Edward de Vere. The style of the doublet and the high collar with its tiny lace edged in black that is a precursor of the ruff, in the St. Albans portrait belongs to the period of the late 1550s or 1560s. Sir Roy Strong has dated it circa 1565. &lt;31&gt; (Private correspondence with Derran Charlton, Oxfordian researcher, South Yorkshire, England, 2000. Concerning Strongs recommendation to Peer not to use the St. Albans as a portrait of Edward de Vere in the television documentary The Shakespeare Conspiracy.)
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"The fact that the St. Albans has the name Edward de Vere blazoned across it does not counter the primary costume evidence that Sir Roy Strong used to date this painting circa 1565. The costume proves that the inscription is wrong in the St. Albans portrait."</div>
<bdi>Attributed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Marcus_Gheeraerts_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:en:Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger"><span title="Flemish painter">Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger</span></a>
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circa 1565 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1565-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
scan by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sandy_Hook&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Sandy Hook (page does not exist)">Sandy Hook</a> from <i>"Shakespeare" identified in Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and The poems of Edward de Vere</i>, J. Thomas Looney, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press for Minos Pub. Co., 1975.