George Jones Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
George Jones NPG 1456(14)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Charles Hutton Lear
George Jones was the son of the mezzotint engraver John Jones, and trained in art. He studied at the Royal Academy schools at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before serving in the Peninsular War. In 1820 the British Institution awarded Jones a prize of 200 guineas for a painting of the Battle of Waterloo. He produced a variation on the theme two years later, and the Institution awarded him a further 200 guineas. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1824. Jones was... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










