Unknown man Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Unknown man NPG D21811
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Richard James Lane, after Thomas Charles Wageman
Born at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, into an artistic family. His mother was a niece of Thomas Gainsborough and his father a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral. At sixteen, he was apprenticed to line engraver Charles Heath. Lane worked as an engraver for several years before turning his attention to the lithographic method of printmaking. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 and was elected an associate engraver three years later. Lane specialised in portraiture; he produced hundreds of portraits of royalty, actors,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










