Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour NPG 6620

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Singer Sargent

Sargent's portrait was commissioned by subscription from members of the Carlton Club and exhibited at the 1908 Royal Academy exhibition. Showing Balfour full length, within a classicised interior, Sargent employs the full apparatus of his later, grand manner, style of portraiture. The Spectator's critic noted: 'the mastery of the whole thing is astonishing, and we ask ourselves could anyone else now place the figure so surely and convincingly before us?' Balfour is shown as a commanding and highly intelligent presence, looking directly at the viewer,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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