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Did Shakespeare have a squint? Opthalmic surgeon Miss Stephanie West compares the portraits.

we have had people from America asking when can they see it, as it was only available in the UK. Well, the answer is November 12th on PBS in the series Secrets of the Dead.

If we didn’t do it, someone else would. We heard that AI can do facial comparisons so we wondered what it might offer. One good thing is...

The following, is a little bit of fun, with some uncanny revelations! (I confess it is also an experiment with Chat GPT to see how a collaborative article works.) For decades, an unassuming portrait of an Elizabethan gentleman hung quietly in a family home in Tring, Hertfordshire, watching over three generations of the Wadlow family without fanfare or fuss. Under 70 miles away from where the portrait and the Wadlow’s called home was Stratford-upon-Avon. A lovely town on the r

BLOG 3: Does it matter what William Shakespeare looked like? "There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” From William...

POST 2: THE MOST ASKED QUESTION (May 2025) Who can “sign off” The Wadlow portrait as Shakespeare? I have lost count of the times I have...

BLOG POST 1: WELCOME (May 2025) Hello and welcome to our new Wadlow Shakespeare portrait blog. This blog aims to delve into the...