Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma NPG 4617

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Ulbricht

The 1968 purchase of this portrait marked a radical shift in the National Portrait Gallery’s acquisition policy. Previously, the Gallery had only been able to accept portraits of sitters who had been dead for at least ten years, a policy intended to ensure that sitters’ contribution to British history and culture had been sufficiently assessed. However, in the late 1960s the Gallery’s director Roy Strong proposed a challenge to the established rules. He suggested that the Gallery should collect portraits of living people by prominent... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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