William Derby Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
William Derby NPG D23061
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Alfred Thomas Derby
William Derby studied drawing with the landscape painter Joseph Barber. He moved to London in 1808, where he painted portraits in oils and watercolour, and miniatures. In 1825, he took over the copying of images for Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain from William Hilton; these were completed in 1834. Derby was commissioned by the Earl of Derby to make a series of watercolour drawings of the portraits of his ancestors from the reign of Henry VII onward,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










