Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Constable NPG D1544

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by David Lucas, after Charles Robert Leslie

Constable is celebrated as one of England's greatest and most progressive landscape artists. He drew lifelong inspiration from his native Suffolk. In 1802 he declared that 'natural painture' - or landscape - could rival history painting. He made hundreds of outdoor oil sketches, which capture the changing skies with near scientific precision; these helped him bring an immediacy and authenticity to exhibition works developed in the studio. Constable met with little contemporary success at home. However The Hay Wain (1821) did receive a gold medal... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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