Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton

Southampton in his teens: the Cobbe Portrait, now at Hatchlands Park, surrey. It was at one time thought to have been the portrait of a woman

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573–1624) was a patron of William Shakespeare and thought to have been the "fair youth" mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets.

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