Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry Purcell NPG D30448

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Purcell, the pre-eminent composer of the Restoration period and the father of modern music in England, is said to have written his first composition at the age of eleven in honour of Charles II's birthday. He became organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679, and of the Chapel Royal in 1682. Purcell composed religious anthems, secular songs, instrumental pieces, odes, music for plays and 'semi-operas', and the famous Dido and Aeneas, one of the first English operas, and the Fairy Queen. According to John... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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