Tarnya Cooper is an art historian and author who is currently the National Trust's Curatorial & Collections Director.[1] (wikipedia)
It fooled scholars for quite a long time.
People love the idea of encountering his face, Searching for Shakespeare.
Somebody had found a piece of wood of the right age to make a pretty convincing portrait of Shakespeare. It fooled historians for quite a long time.
I suspect this is the closest we're ever going to get to looking at the face of Shakespeare.
