Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland NPG x22147

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn

Never formally trained in art, Violet Manners was one of the first exhibitors at the Grosvenor Gallery when it opened in 1877, and she continued to exhibit extensively throughout her life, including at the Royal Academy and the Fine Art Society. She published a selection of her Portraits of Men and Women, drawings of people in her social circle, in 1900. Manners was one of the central figures of the Souls, a group of aristocrats formed in the 1870s-90s, who came together because of their... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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