Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Gainsborough NPG D34265

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francesco Bartolozzi, published by John Boydell, published by Josiah Boydell, after Thomas Gainsborough

Landscape and portrait painter. Gainsborough worked in his native Sudbury and then Ipswich until 1759 when he moved to Bath and established a fashionable portrait practice. Settling in London in 1774, he was Joshua Reynolds's only real rival as a portrait painter. Gainsborough quarrelled with the Royal Academy over the exhibition of his pictures; he was highly-strung in personality, a lively letter writer and devoted to music. Garrick said 'his cranium is so crammed with genius of every kind that it is in danger... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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