Is Shakespeare Now Canadian?

Bob Cox sent along This Washington Post Story on A 1603 Painting in Toronto Purports to Show the Young William Shakespeare, if they prove to be right, the picture may be the only one of him painted while he was still alive.

The owner says the portrait was painted by an ancestor named John Sanders, who may have been an actor in a theatrical company owned by Shakespeare.

\”It looks to be quite conceivably a 1603 painting of someone. Whether it is Shakespeare, we won\’t be able to answer,\” says Christina Corsiglia, curator of European art of the Art Gallery of Ontario. \”We don\’t know what he ultimately looked like.\”