(Myles) Birket Foster Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
(Myles) Birket Foster NPG P99
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by David Wilkie Wynfield
Birket Foster was a famous book illustrator and watercolourist. Shown here in Renaissance dress, only his face is in sharp focus, adding intensity to his direct gaze. Initially trained as a painter, the photographer Wilkie Wynfield made an extensive series of portraits of artists in the early 1860s, which he published in 1864. Said to have been based loosely on works by Titian and other Old Master painters, Julia Margaret Cameron would later credit Wynfield’s ‘beautiful photography’ as an inspiration for her own, more... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.









