Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Flower Portrait

Flower Portrait

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Original – Flower portrait, a portrait of William Shakespeare, believed to be the source image for Droeshout engraving in the 19th century. In 2005 it was proved that the portrait was made in the 19th century, and not in 1609, as inscribed on the upper left corner of the painting.

Reason

The "Flower portrait", a painting revealed in the 19th century, which was then believed to be the source painting which Martin Droeshout copied to the Droeshout engraving, but then later provied to be a fake, a 19th century painting impersonated to be a 1609 painting. The image has good detail, altough some unavoidable wear, and it also has the original signature/description and false date inscribed (see upper left corner).

Articles in which this image appears

Flower portrait, Droeshout portrait, Portraits of William Shakespeare

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Unknown

• Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 08:48, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
• Support clear image, good EV. It's ironic that we're featuring a piece of artwork that's a fake, but the fake itself has EV. Pine^✉ 08:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 20:30, 24 July 2012 (UTC)