Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

J.M.W. Turner NPG 2943

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles West Cope

A precocious and prolific artist, Turner's early oil paintings reflect the influence of Claude and Poussin and his later landscapes are remarkable for their dazzling effects of light and colour. This portrait of him was painted by Charles West Copein 1837. It depicts Turner at the British Institution working on his painting, Regulus (now Tate). A much later description by Cope’s son, the artist Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope, is not wholly accurate. He called it 'a little oil sketch painted by my father...when he... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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