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Interview: art restorer Alec Cobbe

Updated on 09 March 2009

By Nicholas Glass

Nicholas Glass talks to Alec Cobbe, the art restorer whose family trust owns the latest painting to be discovered of William Shakespeare.

The oil painting is believed to have been passed to the Cobbe family by the Earl of Southampton, patron of the bard and the man some believe Shakespeare had a love affair with.

Finding the portrait

Watch the report from Nicholas Glass on the discovery of the oil painting here.

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