Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Hobson NPG 1972

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

It is often assumed that having a portrait painted was solely the privilege of the aristocratic elite. But in the second half of the sixteenth-century, a painted portrait was a realistic aspiration for a middle-class that included merchants, lawyers, doctors and writers. This portrait represents the successful Cambridge businessman Thomas Hobson who ran a mail service and livery stable transporting goods and passengers. He became rich hiring out horses to people travelling to London. He insisted that his customers rented either 'this one or none',... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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