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Robert Smirke. The Awakening of King Lear. Oil on canvas, commissioned for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, ca. 1792

Robert Smirke. The Awakening of King Lear. Oil on canvas, commissioned for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, ca. 1792

Robert Smirke. The Awakening of King Lear. Oil on canvas, commissioned for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, ca. 1792