Chandos portrait [SEP] creator
possible to determine with certainty who painted the portrait, nor whether it really depicts Shakespeare. However, the National Portrait Gallery believes that it probably does depict the writer.
Authorship and provenance.
It has been claimed that Shakespeare's friend Richard Burbage (1567–1619) painted the Chandos portrait, but the first known reference to the painting is in a note written in 1719 by George Vertue, who states that it was painted by John Taylor, a respected member of the Painter-Stainers' company who may also have been
Unitarian minister
- Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
- Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634–1700), lawyer and politician
- Major General Dare Wilson (1919–2014), SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
- Jack Wilson (1914–1997), Olympic rower
- H. de Winton, co-creator of the rules of football
- Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet (1828–1865), writer
- Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (1812–1876), English landowner