Re: MR: Was Richard maligned?

[clevin@rci.ripco.com (Craig Levin)]

Poster: clevin@rci.ripco.com (Craig Levin)

> Poster: "Edward R. Ewen, Jr." <tewen@gandalf.cs.wcu.edu>
> Ego:
> > Because Shakespeare was wrong. The portraits that were done of
> > Richard in the period when living memory would have served to
> > give a likeness don't show any deformity.
> > 
> Given the fact that portraits take a fair amount of time (as compared to 
> say, a photograph) and that they had to be comissioned and sat for, don't 
> you think it might be possible that Richard _chose_ not to have his 
> (alleged ;) deformities corrected by the artists brush?

Because, as far as we know, none were directly commissioned by
him. Kendall seems to think that they were done from the memories
of the artists after Richard had died. Believe it or not, Richard
was immensely popular in England, before and after his death,
especially north of the Trent, where he was Edward's Keeper of
the North. A portrait of a much-liked man like him would have
been valuable to a man from Durham or some other northern shire.
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Craig Levin
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