Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gerard Vandergucht NPG D18989

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Caldwall (Caldwell), after Benjamin Vandergucht

Gerard Van der Gucht, engraver and art dealer, was the son of the engraver Michael Van der Gucht. Taught to engrave by his father, he studied drawing under Louis Chéron and at the Great Queen Street Academy. He is credited with being the first English-born engraver to imitate successfully the French style of blending etching with engraving in order to combine the advantages of free drawing with engraved detail and tonal gradation. Van der Gucht worked for various printsellers and booksellers until his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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