Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Beauclerk; Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans; Nell Gwyn NPG D35094

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Tompson, after Sir Peter Lely

Eleanor Gywn, or 'Pretty witty Nell', as Pepys called her, came to London as an orange-seller, and rose to become one of the leading comic actresses of the day, and mistress to the King, Charles II. The playwright Dryden supplied her with a series of saucy, bustling parts, ideally suited to her talents. She had two sons by the King, and the elder, Charles Beauclerk, was created Duke of St Albans. She was said to have been remembered by Charles on... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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