Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Patch NPG 4081

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Thomas Patch

Thomas Patch forged a career for himself in Italy as an art dealer, painter and engraver, although he was the son of a doctor and was expected to become an apothecary. In 1747 he travelled to Rome, where he met Joshua Reynolds and worked in the studio of Joseph Vernet, producing pastiches of Vernet's work and his own views of Tivoli. In 1755 he was banished from Rome by the Papacy, accused of homosexual indiscretion. He went to Florence and began producing caricatures, usually... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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