Richard Bentley Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Richard Bentley NPG D14436

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Heath, after John Giles Eccardt

A versatile draughtsman and writer, Bentley's friendship with Horace Walpole's resulted in his membership of a Committee of Taste to renovate Walpole's home at Strawberry Hill. As well as producing architectural elevations for the house in a Gothic style, he painted landscapes and allegorical designs. He also produced book illustrations and wrote plays and satires. He was nicknamed 'the Goth' by Horace Walpole.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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