It is known that there are only two pictures of Lilim Shakespeare, but now a picture that some claim will be the only one that was drawn during his life for sale, and its owner hopes to sell it for more than 10 million pounds.
And the painting on 1608, was suspended in Swinton House in Mesham, north of Yorkshire, until it was sold at an auction by Christie’s in 1975.
The auction catalog shows, according to the description of the Dutch artist Paul Van Sommer as “a 44 -year -old noble image, which was said to Shakespeare. ”
Technical expert Denkan Phillips said that the owner of the painting had achieved the matter after discovering that the painting was carrying one letter for Robert Beck, the English painter who held the position of Sergent Pinter for King James I.
Philips said that she was sold at “about 400 pounds” only at a 1975 auction, according to a note in a copy of the catalog. But now “95 %sure” that it could be “the forgotten face of Shakespeare, which is waiting for centuries to be discovered again. “.
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