Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Soane NPG 701

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Jackson

By 1828, the year in which this portrait was painted, Sir John Soane, the hard-working and brilliant architect of the Bank of England, had grown melancholy as well as rich. His portrait was commissioned by the Governors of the British Institution and was described as 'The Portrait of John Soane, R.A., Painted by order of the Directors of the British Institution, as one of its most liberal Benefactors.' It shows Soane as an old man, slightly quizzical, watery-eyed and thin-lipped; but he was justifiably proud... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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