Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Maitland, 1st Baron Maitland NPG 2769

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

This miniature celebrates Maitland's appointment as Lord Chancellor in 1588. Unusually, it is painted in tempera on a card support. The card is composed of a number of sheets of paper stuck together and which are possibly from a sixteenth-century account book. The portraitist is unknown and the technique suggests that the artist may not have been a practised miniature painter.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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