Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Gladstone NPG D34512

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, printed by Brooker & Harrison, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, published by Alexander Hill, after William Bradley

Born John Gladstones, he dropped the ‘s’ when he moved to Liverpool to become a merchant. From there, he operated throughout the British Empire trading corn with India as well as sugar and cotton with the West Indies. Along with his brother Robert, Gladstone extended his business in the Caribbean purchasing plantations and enslaved Africans in British Guiana (now Guyana). The largest was the Vreedenhoop estate in Demerara, which was worked by 430 enslaved people. With the ending of slavery in the 1830s Gladstone moved... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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