George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont NPG D36130

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Turner, published by John Phillips, after William Derby

On the death of his father when he was eleven Wyndham succeeded to vast ancestral property including Petworth House in Sussex, and a great art collection. In his youth Egremont's reputation was as a man of fashion and as a womaniser. In 1794, he sold his London house and moved the ancestral art collection to Petworth. It was constantly visited by artists, many of whom he kept in employment. He bought Old Masters and antique sculpture, as well as commissioning numerous landscapes, subject pictures,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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