Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Ruskin NPG 1336

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Hubert von Herkomer

Hubert Herkomer (the von was added later) was a self-taught artist and son of a woodcarver. in 1879 he undertook this watercolour portrait of John Ruskin, the great writer on art, as one of a group of studies of famous men that he intended to bequeath to his children. He described the circumstances in which it was painted in a later newspaper article: 'I painted John Ruskin in 1879. It was a watercolour, a drawing of head and shoulders, life-size, painted at Denmark Hill, in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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