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The "Chandos" portrait is the most famous of the portraits that may depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Painted between 1600 and 1610, it may have served as the basis for the engraved portrait of Shakespeare used in the ''First Folio'' in 1623. It is named after the Dukes of Chandos, who formerly owned the painting. The portrait was given to the National Portrait Gallery, London on its foundation in 1856, and it is listed as the first work in its collection.〔Tarnya Cooper (ed), Searching for Shakespeare, National Portrait Gallery and Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 54–61〕 It has not been possible to determine with certainty who painted the portrait, nor whether it really depicts Shakespeare. However, the National Portrait Gallery believes that it probably does depict the writer. ==Authorship and provenance== It has been claimed that Shakespeare's friend Richard Burbage (1567–1619) painted the Chandos portrait,〔Mary Edmond, "The Chandos Portrait: A Suggested Painter", ''The Burlington Magazine'', Vol. 124, No. 948, March 1982, pp. 146-147+149.〕 but the first known reference to the painting is in a note written in 1719 by George Vertue, who states that it was painted by John Taylor, a respected member of the Painter-Stainers' company who may also have been the same John Taylor who acted with the Children of Paul's.〔Cooper et al., 54.〕 Vertue refers to Taylor as an actor and painter and as Shakespeare's "intimate friend". Katherine Duncan-Jones argues that 'John Taylor' could have been a misreading of what had originally been "Jo: Taylor"; she suggests that this may refer to the actor Joseph Taylor, who was a protégée of the older Shakespeare.〔Katherine Duncan-Jones, ("A precious memento: The Chandos Portrait and Shakespeare's 'intimate friend'" ), ''Times Literary Supplement'', April 25, 2014, pp.13–15.〕 Vertue also states that before the Duke of Chandos acquired it, the portrait was owned by Shakespeare's possible godson, William Davenant (1606–1668),〔〔 who, according to the gossip chronicler John Aubrey, claimed to be the playwright's illegitimate son. He also states that it was left to Davenant in Taylor's will and that it was bought by Thomas Betterton from Davenant and then sold to the lawyer Robert Keck, a collector of Shakespeare memorabilia.〔〔 After Keck's death in 1719, it passed to his daughter, and was inherited by John Nichol, who married into the Keck family. Nichol's daughter Margaret married James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos. The painting passed through descent within the Chandos title until Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos sold it to the Earl of Ellesmere in 1848. Ellesmere donated it to the National Portrait Gallery.〔Werner Habicht, David John Palmer, Roger Pringle, ''Images of Shakespeare: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1986'', International Shakespeare Association Congress, University of Delaware Press, 1986, p.27〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chandos portrait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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