Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Bt NPG 4659

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Phillips

This portrait’s acquisition illustrates the fundamental importance of the Gallery’s Reference Collection, which consists mainly of prints, in researching and authenticating portraits.
It was unidentified and catalogued only as ‘Portrait of a gentleman’ when it appeared at auction 29 January 1969. It was however signed and dated with Thomas Phillips’ monogram ‘TP 1815’. A member of Gallery staff compared it with contemporary engraved copies of Phillip’s’ portraits in the Gallery’s Reference Collection and was able to identify it as Englefield by comparison with a mezzotint... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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