Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey NPG D32855

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Turner, after Sir Henry Raeburn

Though destined to become one of the most famous sculptors of his age, Chantrey began life as a painter. In his memoirs the artist Charles Robert Leslie remembered Chantrey as 'handsome (his mouth exceedingly beautiful) with a bluff John Bull look'. The most outstanding sculptor of his generation, Chantrey executed portrait busts, public monuments and memorials. His success was the result of his study of character, combining direct observation with simplicity of form. Chantrey had little formal training. He was born of a poor... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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