Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Antonio Verrio NPG 2890

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Antonio Verrio

The early life of Verrio is obscure. By the 1660s he was working in Toulouse and is thought to have come to England in 1671. From about 1675 his chief and very profitable employment was for the Crown, producing vast wall and ceiling decorations at Windsor Castle and Whitehall, and in 1684 he was appointed Principal Painter. At the Revolution, Verrio, a firm Catholic, declined at first to work for William III but in 1699 returned to royal employment. This self-portrait was evidently painted... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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