The so-called Flower Portrait of Shakespeare has been definitively declared a fake. Experts say the painting, which bears the inscription 1609, was in fact created in the early 19th Century. That still makes it valuable, but it means it does not date back to the Bard’s lifetime. Painted over a 16th Century portrait of the Madonna and Child, the portrait is named after Sir Desmond Flower who donated it to the Shakespeare Museum in 1911. It is now owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. There’s more on the images of Shakespeare at about.com.