The Flower portrait is the name of one of the painted portraits of William Shakespeare.

Another example is the Flower portrait, named for its owner, Sir Desmond Flower, who donated it to the Shakespeare Museum in 1911.

The big loser, however, is the so-called Flower portrait, an often-reproduced image that resembles the First Folio engraving by Martin Droeshout the Younger.

Using a bust of Shakespeare in the Garrick Club here and a supposed death mask of the playwright, she has offered a computer image of the "real" Shakespeare, one that coincides with the Chandos and Flower portraits.

Then there is the so-called Flower portrait, which for years was thought to be the only authentic likeness of Shakespeare produced in his lifetime.

An investigation commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London subjected the so-called Flower portrait, right, frequently used to illustrate his plays, to examination by curators, conservators and scientists.

As a result, the National Portrait Gallery concluded, "It can be categorically stated that Flower portrait of Shakespeare is a 19th-century painting."

In the UK, the National Portrait Gallery states that the so-called Flower portrait of William Shakespeare is a 19th-century forgery.

In the 19th century a painting that came to be known as the Flower portrait was discovered, inscribed with the date 1609 and painted on an authentic 17th-century panel.

Despite the recent discovery that the Royal Shakespeare Company's Flower portrait of the Bard was a 19th-century forgery, the National Portrait Gallery still believes this one to have been painted during Shakespeare's lifetime.