Richard Neville Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Richard Neville NPG 5382
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by William Dobson
The carved relief behind Neville depicts Mercury (symbolising good counsel) and Mars (war). A Royalist cavalry charge is shown in the distance. The artist William Dobson, called 'the most excellent painter that England hath yet bred' by John Aubrey, is particularly known for his portraits of Royalist soldiers painted in Oxford during the Civil War.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










