Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil Beaton NPG 7014

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frank Owen Dobson

This bronze bust of Cecil Beaton by Frank Dobson was commissioned by the sitter. The portrait shows Beaton with his hand against his face and has an expressive and informal quality, characteristic of Dobson’s work. Beaton took a number of photographs during the sitting, some of which are in the National Portrait Gallery collection, showing Dobson in his Chelsea studio surrounded by work, and in one image, he leans against the unfinished plaster head. Beaton also recorded the sitting in his diary: ‘I had... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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