Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry Fuseli NPG D4934

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Thomson (Thompson), after Edward Hodges Baily

Swiss clergyman Fuseli came to London in 1764, working as a translator and book illustrator. Encouraged by Reynolds to take up painting, he studied in Rome and upon his return in 1779, began exhibiting works of great psychological complexity, power and imagination, the most menacing being The Nightmare. He became professor of Painting (1799-1805), and then Keeper (1804-25) at the Royal Academy, teaching a generation of artists, including Constable, Haydon and Lawrence. His inclination towards the fantastic, depicted in his heroic,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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