Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Napoléon Bonaparte ('Napoléon on St Helena') NPG 6266

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Benjamin Robert Haydon

Haydon was a great admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte. He painted dozens of pictures of him, bought his death mask and tried on one of the emperor's hats, which, to his delight, fitted exactly. Haydon's Bonaparte is contemplative, reflective, musing on his fortunes and misfortunes, the phenomenal energy stilled, the glory faded. This is one of 23 recorded replicas and variants listed by Haydon. His first Napoleon picture was painted for Thomas Kearsey in 1829 and was exhibited at the Western Exchange in 1830 as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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