William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)

To end this Shakespearean month lets have a look at some portraits of the bard:
 

The Chandos portrait is the most famous of the portraits that are believed to depict William Shakespeare . Painted between 1600 and 1610, it may have served as the basis for the engraved portrait of Shakespeare used in the First Folio in 1623. It is named after the 3rd Duke of Chandos, who formerly owned the painting. The portrait was given to the National Portrait Gallery, London on its foundation in 1856, and it is listed as the first work in its collection.

Portrait of William Shakespeare
1610
Oil on canvas
55,2 x 43,8 cm
National Portrait Gallery
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw11574

This was long thought to be the only portrait of William Shakespeare that had any claim to have been painted from life, until another possible life portrait, the Cobbe portrait, was revealed in 2009. The portrait is known as the 'Chandos portrait' after a previous owner, James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. It was the first portrait to be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 1856. The artist may be by a painter called John Taylor who was an important member of the Painter-Stainers' Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_(painter)

 

 The Cobbe portrait is an early Jacobean panel painting of a gentleman which has been argued to be a life portrait of William Shakespeare. It is displayed at Hatchlands Park in Surrey, a National Trust property, and the portrait is so-called because of its ownership by Charles Cobbe, Church of Ireland (Anglican) Archbishop of Dublin (1686–1765). There are numerous early copies of the painting, most of which were once identified as Shakespeare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbe_portrait

The Cobbe Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564–1616) by an unknown artist
C. 1610
Oil on panel
54 x 38 cm
National Trust, Hatchlands

Martin Droeshout
(1601 – c.1650)
 

Martin Droeshout was an English engraver of Flemish descent, who is best known as illustrator of the title portrait for William Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio of 1623, edited by John Heminges and Henry Condell, fellow actors of the Bard. Nevertheless, Droeshout produced other more ambitious designs in his career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Droeshout

The Droeshout portrait of William Shakespeare as it appears on the title page of the first folio. 

This is the final, or second state, of the engraving.
1623
Engraving
34 x 22,5 cm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droeshout_portrait

John Gilbert (painter)
(1817 - 1897)

Sir John Gilbert RA was an English artist, illustrator and engraver. Gilbert was born in Blackheath, Surrey, and taught himself to paint. His only formal instruction was from George Lance. Skilled in several media, Gilbert gained the nickname, "the Scott of painting". He was best known for the illustrations and wood-engravings he produced for the Illustrated London News.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilbert_(painter)

The Plays of William Shakespeare
circa 1849
105 x 127 cm
Dahesh Museum of Art, N.Y.
https://www.daheshmuseum.org/portfolio/john-gilbertthe-plays-of-william-shakespeare/#.ZE0D2XZBwW8

 James_Northcote
(1746 - 1831)
 

James Northcote RA was a British painter born in Plymouth, and was apprenticed to his father, Samuel Northcote, a watchmaker. In his spare time, he drew and painted. In 1769 he left his father's work and set up as a portrait painter. Four years later he went to London and was admitted as a pupil into the studio and house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. At the same time he attended the Royal Academy schools.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Northcote

The Entry of Richard and Bolingbroke into London
1793
oil on canvas.
303 x 394 cm.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum

 Henry Richter

(1772 - 1857)

 

Henry James Richter RA artist and philosopher, was born in Middlesex, possibly at 40 Great Newport Street, Soho, on 8 March 1772 and baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho, on 5 April at that same year. In about 1787, he began instruction under the artist Thomas Stothard, with whom he remained a close friend. He also began an association with William Blake. In 1788 he produced his first illustrations (to Shakespeare's plays), and first exhibited paintings, showing two landscapes at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited for many years. He became a student of the Royal Academy Schools in 1790, and reportedly studied anatomy.

A Comedy of Errors, Two Dromios

1829

Watercolour

43 x 33 cm

Folger Shakespeare Library

 John Opie

(1761 - 1807)

John Opie RA was an English historical and portrait painter. He painted many great men and women of his day, including members of the British Royal Family, and others who were notable in the artistic and literary professions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Opie

Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida (from Troilus and Cressida)

Date before 1800

Oil on canvas

233 x 144 cm

Tate

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/opie-portrait-of-a-lady-in-the-character-of-cressida-n01026

 Robert Smirke
(1753 - 1845)
 

Robert Smirke RA was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smirke_(painter)

'Measure for Measure', 

Act II, Scene 1, the Examination of Froth and Clown by Escalus and Justice 

(from the Boydell series)
Before 1798
Oil on canvas
156 x 220 cm
Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Measure for Measure
Engraving by Various artists/makers (Thomas Ryder I (British, 1746–1810) & Charles Gauthier Playter (British, before 1786–1809)
44.5 x 59.4 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/365587

Alfred Elmore
(1815 - 1881)
 

Alfred Elmore RA was a British history and genre painter. Born in Clonakilty, Ireland, the son of John Richard Elmore, a surgeon who retired from the British Army to Clonakilty. His family moved to London, where Elmore studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. His early works were in the troubadour style of Richard Parkes Bonington, but he soon graduated to religious work, notably The Martyrdom of Thomas à Becket, commissioned by Daniel O'Connell for Westland Row Church in Dublin. Between 1840 and 1844 Elmore travelled across Europe, visiting Munich, Venice, Bologna, and Florence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Elmore

Two Gentlemen of Verona
1857
Oil on canvas
70 x 53,9
Royal Academy of Arts, London
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/subject-from-two-gentlemen-of-verona

Valentine kissing Silvia's hand, mistakenly thinking that the Duke sleeps. The old man sits there, head slumped, feigning sleep, but all the time keeping a watchful eye. Elmore thus depicts a scene we do not actually see on the stage.

 Edwin Austin Abbey
(1852 - 1911)

Edwin Austin Abbey RA was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation. His most famous set of murals, The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, adorns the Boston Public Library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Austin_Abbey

"Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?"
(The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
1896-1899 (reworked 1900)
oil on canvas
158 x 158 cm
NGA
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.177906.html

 Augustus Leopold Egg
(1816 - 1863)
 

Augustus Leopold Egg RA was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Leopold_Egg

Scene from 'The Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4) (from the play by William Shakespeare)
1845
Oil on canvas
86 x 117 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Frederick Sandys
(1829 - 1904)
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (born Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands; 1 May 1829 – 25 June 1904), usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British painter, illustrator, and draughtsman, associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He was also associated with the Norwich School of painters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sandys

Perdita
1866
Oil on canvas
Private collection

 Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836 - 1912)

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA ( born Lourens Alma Tadema ) was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Alma-Tadema was considered one of the most popular Victorian painters. Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century British art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema

The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra
1885
Oil on panel

65,4 x 91,4 cm
Private collection

John William Waterhouse
(1849 - 1917)

John William Waterhouse RA was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse

Cleopatra
1888
Oil on canvas
55,9 x 63,5 cm
Private collection

Henry Fuseli
(1741 - 1825)
 

Henry Fuseli RA was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as The Nightmare, deal with supernatural subject matter. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, and created his own "Milton Gallery". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fuseli

Henry V', Act II, Scene 2, Henry V Discovering the Conspirators
C. 1780
Oil on panel
48 x 62 cm
Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Frank O. Salisbury
(1874 - 1962)
 

Francis Owen Salisbury was an English artist who specialised in portraits, large canvases of historical and ceremonial events, stained glass and book illustration. In his heyday he made a fortune on both sides of the Atlantic and was known as "Britain’s Painter Laureate". His art was steadfastly conservative and he was a vitriolic critic of Modern Art – particularly of his contemporaries Picasso, Chagall and Mondrian. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O._Salisbury

Richard Burton (1925–1984), as Henry V in 'Henry V' by William Shakespeare
C. 1956
Oil on canvas
150 x 125 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum

Antonio Muñoz Degrain
(1840 - 1924)
 

Antonio Muñoz Degrain was a Spanish painter who began in the Eclectic style, later in his career he moved towards Impressionism. He is best known for his landscapes and scenes inspired by works of literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Muñoz_Degrain

Otelo e Desdémona
1880
Oil on canvas
272 x 367 cm
Chiado Museum (Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado), Lisbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_(Portugal)

William Holman Hunt
(1663 - 1730)
 

William Holman Hunt OM (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holman_Hunt

Bianca (from Shakespeare’s Othello)
(1868-69).
Oil on canvas.
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, UK.

The model for Bianca was an American girl named Miss Lydiard: ‘a very beautiful fair American girl’ according to Hunt.
Depicts Bianca, a character from Shakespeare’s Othello. She is Cassio’s jealous lover. Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago’s scheme to incite Othello’s jealousy of Cassio. Traditionally regarded as a courtesan, Bianca was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds.

Eugène Delacroix
(1798 - 1863)

 

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix

Hamlet et Horatio au cimetière (Hamlet and Horatio at the graveyard)
1839
Oil on canvas
82 x 120 cm
Louvre
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059638

James Northcote
(1746 - 1831)

 

James Northcote RA was a British painter. Northcote was born in Plymouth, and was apprenticed to his father, Samuel Northcote, a watchmaker. In his spare time, he drew and painted. In 1769 he left his father's work and set up as a portrait painter. Four years later he went to London and was admitted as a pupil into the studio and house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. At the same time he attended the Royal Academy schools. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Northcote

Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare
Between 1804 and 1806
Oil on canvas
55,9 x 40,6 cm
Yale centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:215

James Barry
(1741 - 1806)

James Barry RA was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this "notoriously belligerent personality", who emerged as one of the most important Irish artists. He was also notable as a profound influence on William Blake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(painter)

King Lear mourns Cordelia
1786 - 1788
Oil on canvas
26,9 x 36,7 cm
Tate Gallery, London
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/barry-king-lear-weeping-over-the-dead-body-of-cordelia-t00556

Washington Allston
(1779 - 1843)

Washington Allston ARA was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color. While his early artworks concentrate on grandiose and spectacular aspects of nature, his later pieces represent a more subjective and visionary approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Allston

Scene from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (Katharina and Petruchio)
1809
Oil on canvas
70,5 x 78,4 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/83666

Charles Robert Leslie
(1794 - 1859)
 

Charles Robert Leslie RA was an English genre painter. Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Leslie completed his education and afterwards became apprenticed to a bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in painting and drama, and when George Frederick Cooke visited the city he executed a portrait of the actor from recollection of him on the stage, which was considered a work of such promise that a fund was raised to enable the young artist to study in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Leslie

Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv
1825
Oil on canvas
86 x 99 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:512

 

 

 Théodore Chassériau
(1907 - 1998)

Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria. Early in his career he painted in a Neoclassical style close to that of his teacher Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, but in his later works he was strongly influenced by the Romantic style of Eugène Delacroix. He was a prolific draftsman, and made a suite of prints to illustrate Shakespeare's Othello. The portrait he painted at the age of 15 of Prosper Marilhat, makes Théodore Chassériau the youngest painter exhibited at the Louvre museum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théodore_Chassériau

Le spectre de Banquo
1854 - 1855
Oil on wood
53,8 x 65,3 cm
Musée de Reims
https://musees-reims.fr/oeuvre/le-spectre-de-banquo

Henry Payne
(1868 - 1940)
 

Henry Albert Payne RWS, also known as "Henry Arthur Payne", (1868 – 4 July 1940) was a British stained glass artist, watercolourist and painter of frescoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Payne_(artist)

Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens (Henry VI, Part 1)
1908
Pen and Watercolor, gouache, gold -leaf and oil
50 x 55 cm
City Museums and Art Gallery Birmingham, England

This is the preliminary painting for a mural in the East Corridor of the Palace of Westminster, presented by Earl Beauchamp. The painting is of William Shakespeare's version of the splitting of nobles into the factions of York and Lancaster, sparking the Wars of the Roses in 15th-century England. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and his followers select the white rose, while the Duke of Somerset and his sole companion took the red. Copies of this painting were made available to English society; Sir John Holding had a copy, and it was reproduced in various publications.

 Daniel Maclise
(1806 - 1870)

Daniel Maclise RA was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Maclise

 

Scene from ‘Twelfth Night’ (‘Malvolio and the Countess’)
1840
Oil on Canvas
124 x 73 cm.
National Gallery, London

George Dawe
 (1781 – 1829)
 

George Dawe RA  was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. He relocated to Saint Petersburg in 1819, where he won acclaim for his work from the artistic establishment and complimentary verses by Pushkin. He was the son of Philip Dawe, a successful mezzotint engraver who also produced political cartoons relating to the events of the Boston Tea Party. One of his brothers was Henry Edward Dawe, also a portraitist. He died on 15 October 1829 in Kentish Town, United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dawe

Imogen Found in the Cave of Belarius
From Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II
Circa 1809
Oil on canvas
100 x 127 cm
Tate Britain

And another picture of Imogen :

Anthony Devas
(1911 - 1958)
 

Thomas Anthony Devas was a British portrait painter who was associated with members of the Euston Road School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Devas

Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991), as Imogen, Stratford, 1957 (from 'Cymbeline')
1958
Oil on canvas
153 x 102 cm
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre 

Marcus Stone
(1840 - 1921)

Marcus Stone RA was an English painter. Stone was born in London, and was educated at the Royal Academy. He illustrated, with much success, books by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and other writers who were friends of his family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Stone

 

Claudio, Deceived by Don John, Accuses Hero 

(from 'Much Ado About Nothing' by William Shakespeare)
1861
Oil on canvas
29 x 38 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

 Joseph Noel Paton
(1821 - 1901)

Sir Joseph Noel Paton FRSA was a Scottish artist, illustrator and sculptor. He was also a poet and had an interest in, and knowledge of, Scottish folklore and Celtic legends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Noel_Paton

The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania
1847
Oil on canvas
76,2 x 123,2 cm
Scottish National Gallery
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5265

 

Edwin Landseer
(1802 - 1873)
 

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Landseer

Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream
between 1848 and 1851
Oil on canvas
82 x 133 cm
National Gallery of Victoria
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4118/

 John Collier

(1850 - 1934)

 

John Maler Collier OBE ROI RP was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collier_(painter)

In the Forest of Arden (Touchstone and Audrey from Shakespeare 's As You Like It )

1892

Oil on canvas,

152 x 200 cm.

Private collection

 Thomas Stothard
(1755 - 1834)

 

Thomas Stothard RA was a British painter, illustrator and engraver. His son, Robert T. Stothard was a painter (fl. 1810): he painted the proclamation outside York Minster of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne in June 1837.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stothard

Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii
C. 1799
Oil on paper laid on canvas
210 x 260 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
https://britishart.yale.edu/

Edward Alcock
(1745 – 1778)

Edward Alcock (fl. 1745–1778) was an English painter of portraits and miniatures.
Alcock lived in a variety of towns around England and was described by the poet William Shenstone as "the most volatile of all creatures that have not wings". He is first recorded living with his mother in 1745 in Liverpool, where he went into partnership with a carver-and-gilder in 1747. He was recorded in Bath in 1757 and was living in Birmingham between 1759 and 1760, where he painted a full-length portrait of Shenstone now in the National Portrait Gallery. He was described as "Mr Alcock of Bristol" in 1769, and by 1778 was living in London and exhibiting at the Royal Academy and Free Society of Artists, while retaining strong links with Birmingham.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Alcock_(artist)

Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i
c. 1778
Oil on canvas
66 x 50,8 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

https://britishart.yale.edu/

Sir John Everett Millais
(1829 - 1896)

 

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.[3] He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millais

Ophelia
C.1851
Oil on canvas
76,2 x 111,8 cm
Tate Britain
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-ophelia-n01506/story-ophelia

Thomas Francis Dicksee
(1819 - 1895)

 

Thomas Francis Dicksee was a British painter. He was a portraitist and painter of historical, genre subjects often inspired by the works of Shakespeare.  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_Dicksee

Juliet on the Balcony
1875
Oil on canvas
154 x 101 cm
McManus Gallery

https://www.mcmanus.co.uk/

Charles Buchel
(1872 - 1950)

 

Charles Buchel was a British artist born in Mainz, Germany, but immigrated to England as a child. Buchel studied art at the Royal Academy Schools. He was hired by the actor-manager, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1898, and worked with him for sixteen years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Buchel

Herbert Beerbohm Tree as King John in King John by William Shakespeare
1900
Oil on canvas
218 x 147 cm
Victoria and Albert museum
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85204/herbert-beerbohm-tree-as-king-painting-buchel-charles/

William Holmes Sullivan
(1836 - 1908)

 

William Holmes Sullivan was a British painter who mainly painted history paintings, portraits, and war scenes. His works include various paintings based on William Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holmes_Sullivan

'Julius Caesar', Act III, Scene 1, the Assassination
C. 1888
Oil on canvas
58 x 89 cm
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre