Benjamin West Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Benjamin West NPG 1649

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Angelica Kauffmann

Angelica Kauffman became friends with the artist Benjamin West in Rome around 1762 and they made drawings of each other. Kauffman painted West around the same time, and this image may be an early study for the painting, although West's clothes are different in the final portrait. In this drawing, he wears a fanciful 'van Dyck' costume. Pompeo Batoni, one of Rome's leading artists, often depicted British visitors to the city in similar dress when they came to Italy on their Grand Tour of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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