Sir Edwin Landseer Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sir Edwin Landseer NPG x12145
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John & Charles Watkins
Landseer was one of the nineteenth century's most renowned painters and was reputed to have been Queen Victoria's favourite. He first exhibited his work at the Royal Academy in 1816 when only fourteen years old and went onto establish his reputation with a series of animal subjects, particularly horses, dogs and stags who were often shown parodying human behaviours. In 1858, the government commissioned Landseer to make four bronze lions for the base of Nelson's Column in nearby Trafalgar Square. Following a series of... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










