Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Benjamin Wilson NPG D8620

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Benjamin Wilson

Wilson was the son of a wealthy clothes manufacturer in York. After his father's business failed, Wilson moved to London, where he became a clerk and began to study painting. In the late 1740s, he lived in Dublin, where he had a successful career as a portrait painter. He returned to London and built up a lucrative portrait practice, which was probably patronised chiefly by Yorkshire men in London. In 1773, the Duke of York, appointed Wilson painter to the Board of Ordnance. A... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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