Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Abraham Cooper NPG D2206

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by J. Tomson, after John Jackson

Showed an aptitude for drawing from an early age. When he was twenty-two, wishing to possess a portrait of a favourite horse under his care, he bought a manual of painting. His employer bought the resulting work and encouraged him to continue. Cooper was introduced to Benjamin Marshall, the animal painter, who took him into his studio. From 1811 he was a regular contributor to the illustrated periodical Sporting Magazine and soon after began exhibiting paintings at the Royal Academy and the British Institution.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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