William Shakespeare, chief figure of the English Renaissance, is here seen in the Chandos portrait.

It has sometimes been argued that the famous Chandos portrait of Shakespeare was painted by Burbage ; he had a strong interest in painting.

A patron of the arts, in 1848, he purchased at auction for 355 guineas from the estate of Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the only known ( or suspected ) portrait of William Shakespeare in existence.

One of its best-known images is the Chandos portrait, the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright.

The Chandos portrait

It has been claimed that Shakespeare's friend Richard Burbage ( 1567 – 1619 ) painted the Chandos portrait, but the first known reference to the painting is in a note by George Vertue, who states that it was painted by John Taylor, a respected member of the Painter-Stainers ' company who may also have been the same John Taylor who acted with the Children of Paul's.

He also states that before the Duke of Chandos acquired it, the portrait was owned by Shakespeare's godson, William Davenant ( 1606 – 1668 ), who, according to the gossip chronicler John Aubrey, claimed to be the playwright's illegitimate son.

Since the man in the Chandos portrait resembles the one in the Droeshout engraving, the similarity lends an indirect legitimacy to the oil painting.

A further indication of legitimacy is the fact that the Chandos portrait was the inspiration for two posthumous portraits of Shakespeare, one by Gerard Soest and another, grander one, known as the " Chesterfield portrait " after a former owner of that painting.

An early copy of the portrait from c. 1670, which may give a clearer idea of the original appearance of the beardIn 2006, Tarnya Cooper of the National Portrait Gallery completed a three-and-a-half-year study of portraits purported to be of Shakespeare and concluded that the Chandos portrait was most likely a representation of Shakespeare.

" Some Victorians recoiled at the idea that the Chandos portrait represented Shakespeare.

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William Shakespeare, chief figure of the English Renaissance, as portrayed in the Chandos portrait ( artist and authenticity not confirmed ).

The Chandos portrait, commonly assumed to depict William Shakespeare, " the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul " ( John Dryden, 1668 ), " our myriad-minded Shakespeare " ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge | S. T. Coleridge, 1817 ).

He also initiated the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, by donating the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare.

This is equally evident whether we examine the unparalleled church cantatas of Bach, of which nearly 200 are extant ( see List of Bach cantatas ), or the Chandos Anthems of Handel.

Joan Chandos Baez () ( born January 9, 1941 as Joan Chandos Báez ) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace, and environmental justice.

It is situated in a Grade I listed building in the architecturally protected Georgian Castle Street, designed by Benjamin Holloway for the Duke of Chandos, and built over the site of the former castle.

He may also have printed Burlington Gate ( 1731 ), evoked by Alexander Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, and defending Lord Chandos, who is therein satirized.

This concerto thus received only its second performance in 1999 and its first recording is now on Chandos.

Sir Frederick Ashton ( 1904-1988 ), choreographer with The Royal Ballet, lived at Chandos Lodge in Eye and at Yaxley, where he is buried alongside his sister.

More recently, he has recorded the complete Prokofiev sonatas with ASV and his recent recording of the complete Beethoven Bagatelles and Piano Concertos with the CBSO and Weller is available on Chandos.

Formerly the country seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, Stowe House is now occupied by Stowe School.

Viscount Chandos, of Aldershot in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He was the son of the politician and sportsman the Honourable Alfred Lyttelton, eighth son of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, whose eldest son, the fifth Baron, succeeded his kinsman Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos as 8th Viscount Cobham in 1889. the title is held by the first Viscount's grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1980.

Lord Chandos is also in remainder to the viscountcy of Cobham and its subsidiary titles the barony of Cobham, the barony of Lyttelton, the barony of Westcote and the baronetcy of Frankley.

Through his daughter it passed to the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, and is now held by these Dukes ' heir of line.

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* John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos ( 1492 – 1557 ) is sometimes listed as de jure 7th Lord Chandos of the 1337 creation

The area is named after the mound, constructed in the early 18th century by Henry James Brydges-Earl of Carnarvon and first Duke of Chandos.

Described by the medieval historian Froissart as " wise and full of devices ", as a military strategist Chandos is believed to have been the mastermind behind three of the most important English victories of the Hundred Years War: the Battle of Crecy, the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of Auray.

His passing was mourned on both sides ; In his book, " A Brief History of The Hundred Years ' War " Desmond Seward states that Charles V of France (" Charles the Wise ") is reported to have said that " had Chandos lived, he would have found a way of making a lasting peace ".

Sir John Chandos is the founder of the Canto family in Portugal, which is believed to have later spread through Madeira and Azores (: pt: Canto ( apelido )).

Chandos was one of the commanders who led the sixteen-year old Edward's troops to victory at the Battle of Crécy.

John Chandos is one of the characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel " The White Company " ( 1892 ) and in his later novel " Sir Nigel "

On 13 May 1652 he acted as one of the seconds of his brother-in-law Colonel Henry Compton, in a duel with George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos.

The Duke is chiefly remembered on account of his connections with Georg Frideric Handel, for whom he acted as a major patron, and with Alexander Pope, seen as having slandered Chandos in one of his poems.

In 1719 Chandos was one of main subscribers in the Royal Academy of Music, not the well-known conservatoire of that name but a corporation that produced baroque opera on stage in London.

Around this time he met Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, who would be a powerful patron and friend to Gibbs, who would later remodel the Earl's house Wimpole Hall and James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos for whom he would be one of the architects to work at Cannons ( house ) from 1715-19.

Not only is the shadow of the upper section of the painting black, so also is the cloth that covers the platform, the dress of one of the ladies, the cloak of Baron Chandos and the sleeves of the executioner.

Chandos was a gentleman by birth, but unlike most commanders of the day he held no title of nobility.

Tansman's music has been performed by musicians such as Segovia, Walter Gieseking, José Iturbi, Jane Bathori, Joseph Szigeti, Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Igor Zubkovsky and most recently Chandos Records has increased his profile, with the start of a series of his orchestral works, recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oleg Caetani.

* John Robert Robinson, The princely Chandos, a memoir of James Brydges, paymaster-general to the forces abroad during the most brilliant part of the Duke of Marlborough's military ... afterwards the first Duke of Chandos

* The Stanhope Medal, which was introduced in 1873 and named in memory of naval officer Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope, and awarded annually for the most gallant rescue to have been rewarded by the Society.

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos erected a palace at Cannons Park around 1713 and was by far the most important man in the district.

This was followed by Frank Martin's Ballade with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Matthias Bamert ( Chandos ), Elgar Howarth's Concerto for Trombone with Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag and Howarth conducting ( Doyen ), Derek Bourgeois ' Trombone Concerto with the Sun Life Band, much of the standard trombone and piano repertoire on EMI as part of its Virtuosi series and most recently the Bourgeois Trombone Sonata with the YBS Band and David King.

On the other side there came gladly the Earl of Warwick, the hoary-headed ( white or grey headed ) Earl of Suffolk was there, and Bartholomew de Burghersh, most privy to the Prince, and Audeley and Chandos, who at that time were of great repute.