Birthdays often bring surprises. But this year’s surprise on the birthday of the great Bri

Birthdays often bring surprises. But this year’s surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is     21     one of the most surprising.
On April 22, one day before his 441st birthday anniversary, experts     22     that one of the most recognizable     23     of William Shakespeare is a fake (赝品).
This     24     that we no longer have a good     25     of what Shakespeare looked like. “It’s very possible that many pictures of Shakespeare are unreliable because many of them are     26     of this one,” said an expert from Britain’s National Portrait Gallery.
The _27_ es after four months of testing. Experts from the gallery say the image — monly known as the “Flower portrait” — was actually     28     in the 1800s, two centuries     29_  Shakespeare’s death.
The art experts who work at the gallery say they used modern chemistry technology to     30     the paint on the picture. These checks found traces (痕迹) of paint deep in the picture     31     about 1814.
Shakespeare     32     in 1616, and the date that appears on the portrait is 1609.
“We now think the portrait dates back to around 1818 to 1840. This was     33     there was a new interest in Shakespeare’s     34     ,” Tanya Cooper, the gallery’s 16th century curator (馆长) said.
The     35     picture has often been used as a cover for     36     of his plays. It is called the “Flower portrait” because one of its     37    , Desmond Flower, gave it to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“There have always been     38     about the authenticity (真实性) of the painting,” said David Howells, curator for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“Now we know the truth, we can put the image in its proper place in the history of Shakespearean portraiture (画像技法),” he said.
Two other images of Shakespeare are also being studied as part of the investigation and the results will     39    later in May. But for now what Shakespeare really looked like will remain a     40    .
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