Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Hoare NPG D35887

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by Samuel William Reynolds, after Prince Hoare

Hoare was apprenticed to the painter and sculptor Giuseppe Grisoni, with whom he travelled to Rome in 1728. He returned to England temporarily around 1733 and permanently four years later. Moving to Bath in 1739, he become the first fashionable portraitist to settle in that town. During the 1740s and 1750s, Hoare portrayed many influential politicians and social leaders, including prime ministers Pitt and Walpole, and the composer, Handel. Included amongst his patrons were the Duke of Newcastle, the Earls... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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