The painting now believed to be of William Shakespeare has hung on the walls of the Cobbe family for about 300 years. Story here.
"That the painting looks more like a 26-year-old than a 46-year-old - Shakespeare's age when it was likely painted - may be down to the convention of the time when a painter should "polish out the wrinkles and increase the size of the pearls," according to Mark Broch, curator of the Cobbe collection."
They were using a version of Photoshop even back then.
Via the Guardian
It's disappointing that, despite mastering the blur and dodge tools, they never even explored the potential of the text tool to enliven any image with snarky captions. This image, for instance, is crying out for an "I see what thou didst there."