Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Bt NPG 316a(103)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

'he had walked through life with his eyes and ears open.' Sir Henry Russell on Sir Francis Chantrey, 1849.
This is a later example of Chantrey's drawing made with the camera lucida, showing how he developed his draughtsmanship. Russell visited Chantrey's studio six times and described sittings as 'a treat' because Chantrey had 'both seen and heard much to be remembered' during his long career. Russell worked for the East India Company, and the marble bust made from this drawing was last recorded as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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