Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Hookham Frere NPG 316a(51)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

Entered Parliament as an MP in 1796. He was an envoy in Lisbon and Madrid, and in 1808 was sent to Spain as Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Central Junta. Affairs on the Peninsula were then in a very critical state, and in November of that year Napoleon marched upon Madrid. Frere advised Sir John Moore, the commander of the British forces in the north of Spain, to advance through Madrid. The consequences were disastrous; Frere was held responsible, recalled the following year, and found... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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