Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake NPG 2515(16)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Brockedon

As one of the first painters to arrive in Italy after the Continent reopened in 1815, Eastlake came to dominate the British colony of artists that existed in Rome during the late 1810s-1820s, and was the driving force behind the establishment of the British academy in Rome. Most days, he would spend dangerously long hours sketching the campagna and its people in the sun, and was consequently nicknamed Carlo the Salamander by his artist-friends. He would later become President of the Royal Academy in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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