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To be or not to be?

Updated on 09 March 2009

By Nicholas Glass

A portrait is unveiled which experts claim is the only one of William Shakespeare painted in his lifetime, as Nicholas Glass reports.

It is believed to have been painted in 1610, six years before he died.

Many paintings claiming to be of the bard have been discredited, but if this one is genuine, it could be the greatest Shakespearean discovery of a generation.

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