Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Henry Lee NPG D25364

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Basire, after Moses Griffith

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Lee was the originator of the annual Accession Day Tilts on 17 November; chivalric events in honour of the Queen, and the most important Elizabethan court festival from at least 1581. He was the first person to hold the office of Queen's Champion, which he resigned in 1590. Lee later patronised the artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger to paint the 'Ditchley portrait' of Elizabeth I. His epitaph records him as a man who served 'five succeeding princes,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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