Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Canning NPG 316a(174)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

A brilliant Tory statesman and orator, but distrusted for his opportunism and inconsistency. After a brief period following the Whigs, Canning entered Parliament in 1793 as a disciple of William Pitt. He is remembered as the architect of Britain's liberal foreign policy after the Napoleonic Wars, and for supporting the Greeks in their struggle against the Ottomans and the Latin American colonies against Spain and Portugal. Canning clashed with Lord Castlereagh over war strategy and fought a duel with him in 1809.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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