 Gopnik goes on to describe how the Sanders Portrait does not seem to resemble the Droeshout portrait or the Shakespeare funerary bust at Stratford-upon-Avon, both of which resemble each other and are accepted by scholars as having been contemporary likenesses of Shakespeare.Gopnik does, however, refer to a comparison of the Sanders and Droeshout portraits that found 16 facial points in common, including the attached earlobe.The image has oft been over looked by scholars with a host of subjective excuses including that the man in the portrait looks too young to be 39 years old, or that the birth date given on the back label is, or has been, used speculatively and only after the 18th century.