Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Joseph Southall; Anna Elizabeth Southall NPG 7020

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Edward Southall

The example of early Italian art persuaded Southall to give up his early training as an architect and to devote himself to highly-crafted paintings which revived the use of egg tempera. Encouraged by Ruskin, Morris and Burne-Jones, he became a leading member of the Birmingham School in the 1890s and founded the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901. His wife, Anna Elizabeth, was herself a significant craftswoman, assisting Southall in his work and writing on the art of gilding. Known as The... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.