Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man NPG Ax17149

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frederick Hollyer

Hollyer took up photography in about 1860, and established a business in the photographic reproduction of works of art, notably the paintings of the pre-Raphaelites and the drawings of Burne-Jones. As a relaxation he photographed people, and at his studio on Pembroke Square, London, Mondays were reserved for portraiture. His portrait prints, with their limited range of tone and distinctive mounts, have a rare delicacy and beauty. His sitters are unselfconsciously posed and softly lit, their characters revealed with great sympathy and understanding.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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