Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope NPG Ax13820

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ernest Edwards, published by Lovell Reeve & Co

Philip Stanhope was a historian, politician and one of the founding trustees of the National Portrait Gallery acting as its Chairman for its first twenty years. With the wealth provided by his father, raised through the profits from a sugar plantation in the then slave colony of Jamaica, he spent much of his early life travelling throughout Europe, only later entering politics through the encouragement of his father. During his political career, he was also a prolific historian and biographer. Philip was wary of political... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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