Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Vanderbank NPG 3647

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Vanderbank

His confident self-portrait is a virtuoso performance with a dip pen, cut from a reed or feather. The line swells and ebbs as the artist varied the pressure on the paper. Vanderbank's dynamic handling shows the on-going influence of renowned continental artists, such as the Dutch artist Rembrandt and the Flemish artist van Dyck who made similar pen and ink drawings. This portrait presents Vanderbank as a worthy successor to his famous predecessors. More detailed information on this portrait is available in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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