Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois NPG D763

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel William Reynolds, after James Northcote

Bourgeois, the son of a watchmaker, was born in London. From the age of ten he was raised by Noel Desenfans and his wife. Having trained as an artist under P.J. de Loutherbourg, he was elected as an academician of the Royal Academy in 1782, and was appointed landscape painter to George III in 1794. Bourgeois and Desenfans worked as a dealing partnership from the 1780s. Desenfans posed as a gentleman collector, with pictures displayed around their house. He died in 1807,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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