Sir John Willes Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Willes NPG 484

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Hudson

The portrait shows Willes in his scarlet robes as a justice, with a collar of ss as an ancient insignia of office. NPG 484 probably represents a second sitting to the leading portrait painter artist, Thomas Hudson, and is a good and perhaps the best of known versions. A few years earlier Hudson had painted a standing portrait of the judge. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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