Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Matthew Smith NPG 4161

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cathleen Sabine Mann

Painter of nudes, landscapes and still-life. Smith was born into an affluent family in Halifax, and was expected to join the family business manufacturing wire. He chose instead to study design at the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester. From 1905, Smith attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London, one of the most progressive art schools of the day, and from 1910 he studied in Paris. Although Smith spent much of his life in France, where his work was influenced by Matisse and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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