Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William (Thomas) Beckford NPG D14872

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by J. Singleton, published by John Sewell, after P. Sauvage

Novelist, collector and patron of the arts, William Beckford was the son of a famous Lord Mayor of London and heir to a West Indian slave trade fortune that made him one of the richest men in England. At the height of his wealth, Beckford owned fourteen plantations across Jamaica. Declining sugar prices and his own financial mismanagement meant that by the time of the abolition of the slave trade in 1833 he owned just four, receiving compensation for the 660 enslaved Africans who worked... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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