450077 Charles Macklin as Shylock in Shakespeare\'s \'The Merchant of Venice\', Covent Garden, c.1768 (oil on canvas) by Zoffany, Johann (1733-1810); 83.8x72.4 cm; The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK; (add.info.: The Irish actor Charles Macklin (1699???797) was the first, probably since Shakespeare??? time, not to play the Jew Shylock as a comical clown. Instead, he studied the gestures and dress of Jewish traders in the City of London to create a serious, realistic characterisation. Here Zoffany has depicted Macklin expressing Shylock??? cold fury at his daughter??? elopement with his jewels. Part of The Somerset Maugham Collection, transferred from the National Theatre); 穢 Holburne Museum ; English, out of copyright.