Marlowe portrait

Marlowe portrait
A half-height portrait of a young, bearded man.
ArtistUnknown
Year1585 (1585)
MediumPanel painting
SubjectUnknown man, perhaps Christopher Marlowe
Dimensions61 cm × 46 cm (24 in × 18 in)
LocationCorpus Christi College, Cambridge
OwnerCorpus Christi College

The putative Marlowe portrait is an unsigned portrait on wooden panel, dated 1585, which was discovered in 1952 or 1953 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It has been proposed that the portrait depicts the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), though several scholars have suggested that this is unlikely.


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