Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ellen Terry NPG 2274

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Frederic Watts

Watts married his first wife, the actress Ellen Terry, in 1864 when she was seventeen. The artist was thirty years older than his wife, and later wrote that he had hoped to ‘influence, guide and cultivate a very artistic and peculiar nature and to remove an impulsive young girl from the dangers and temptations of the stage’. Terry inspired Watts’s painting, but the marriage broke down within a year. The pair reconciled as friends in the 1880s and Watts sent Terry this portrait, which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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