Portraits of historic figures such as Elizabeth 1, Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare were among the 69 works of art 'deinstalled' from the Government Art Collection ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

To tie in with the BBC’s Shakespeare ... owned collection. The paintings are drawn from public collections in every part of the country, big and small, from the most famous to the completely ...

“I thought there must’ve been hundreds of paintings of Shakespeare because he’s so famous. “I only started looking into it because a visitor we had a few weeks later, who had never seen ...

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in ...