Expert National Portrait Gallery in London, believes that in a portrait from the collection of Alex Cobb, probably depicted a British poet and courtier Sir Thomas Overberi

British experts again questioned the assertion restorer Alec Cobb (Alec Cobbe), that the portrait of his family collection depicts William Shakespeare. The fact that the evidence he presented was not convincing, already wrote art critic newspaper Charlotte Higgins, Guardian (Charlotte Higgins), and the owner of an online diary Heresy Corner .

Cobb at the beginning of March 2009 announced that the portrait, held in his family since the beginning of XVIII century, is a lifetime image of Shakespeare . Portrait Cobb will provide the general public in April 2009 at an exhibition in the hometown of Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon.

But the curator of the National Portrait Gallery in London, an expert on the painting of XVI century doctor Tarna Cooper (Tarnya Cooper) believes that in a portrait from the collection of Cobb portrayed not Shakespeare and his contemporaries - the poet Sir Thomas Overberi (Sir Thomas Overbury ), close to the royal court. In favor of this show richly embroidered jacket with a luxurious lace collar, which shows the man in the portrait.

In addition, said Cooper, there is exactly attribute intravital portrait of Sir Overberi stored in the library of Oxford University. The man shown in this picture, is a clear similarity with the character portraits from the collection of Cobb, up to a slightly deformed left ear.

Cooper also believes that the so-called Janssen portrait, preserved in Foldzherskoy Shakespeare Library in Washington, also shows no Shakespeare, and Sir Overberi. The similarity of human, depicted in a portrait Janssen and stored in his collection of paintings, Cobb believes one of the evidence in favor of the fact that he has proved lifetime image of Shakespeare.

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Source: lenta.ru , telegraph.co.uk , artinvestment.ru