Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Man confessing to a monk NPG D11758

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Isaac Beckett, after Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder

The first major English mezzotint engraver, apprenticed to a calico printer in London. He was introduced to the newly invented technique of mezzotinting by John Lloyd, a printseller. Beckett engraved numerous mezzotint portraits, principally after the designs of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller, Wissing and Riley. He also engraved religious, mythological and landscape scenes after Heemskerck and other masters. Among his greatest mezzotint portraits are Sir Godfrey Kneller, King Charles II and James, Duke of York. Apart from... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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