This was long thought to be the only portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> that had any claim to have been painted from life, until another possible life portrait, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbe_portrait" class="extiw" title="w:Cobbe portrait">Cobbe portrait</a>, was revealed in 2009. The portrait is known as the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandos_portrait" class="extiw" title="w:Chandos portrait">Chandos portrait</a>' after a previous owner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brydges,_1st_Duke_of_Chandos" class="extiw" title="w:James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos">James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos</a>. It was the first portrait to be acquired by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(London)" class="extiw" title="w:National Portrait Gallery (London)">National Portrait Gallery</a> in 1856. The portrait is oil on canvas, feigned oval, 21 3/4 in. x 17 1/4 in.  (552 mm x 438 mm), Given by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, 1856, on display in Room 4 at the National Portrait Gallery, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" class="extiw" title="w:London">London</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" class="extiw" title="w:England">England</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NPG_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPG-1">[1]</a></sup>
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<ul><li>John Taylor<sup id="cite_ref-NPG_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPG-1">[1]</a></sup></li>
<li>Derivative work: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fred_the_Oyster" title="User:Fred the Oyster">Fred the Oyster</a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fred_the_Oyster" title="User talk:Fred the Oyster"><span class="signature-talk">talk</span></a>)</li></ul></div>
23 March 2010, 12:52 (UTC)
National Portrait Gallery<sup id="cite_ref-NPG_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPG-1">[1]</a></sup>