Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Stephen Fry NPG 6323

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling met Stephen Fry in 1993 and asked him to sit for her. In all she made three oil paintings from life, a number of oil sketches and about two dozen drawings. During breaks they often discussed Oscar Wilde, though it was some years later that Hambling made a bronze memorial sculpture of Wilde, on Adelaide Street near Trafalgar Square, and that Fry played him in the film Wilde (1997). This portrait of his face half-crumpled by neurotic anxiety was preferred to her finished... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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