Does This Rediscovered Portrait Depict Shakespeare’s Secret Male Lover?

Written By Meredith Jordan

Scholars were surprised by the androgynous appearance of the sitter in what they say is an unusually erotic portrait by Elizabethan standards.

An interview with Jo Lawson-Tancred in Artnet News from 4 September 2025.

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