Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Gainsborough NPG D34266

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Meyer, published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, after John Jackson, after Thomas Gainsborough

Landscape and portrait painter. Gainsborough worked in his native Sudbury and then Ipswich until 1759 when he moved to Bath and established a fashionable portrait practice. Settling in London in 1774, he was Joshua Reynolds's only real rival as a portrait painter. Gainsborough quarrelled with the Royal Academy over the exhibition of his pictures; he was highly-strung in personality, a lively letter writer and devoted to music. Garrick said 'his cranium is so crammed with genius of every kind that it is in danger... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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