Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Algernon Capel, 2nd Earl of Essex NPG 3207

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Algernon Capel was a soldier and a courtier, who served under William III as a general. He also sat in the House of Lords, and was Lord-Lieutenant first of Dorset then of Hertfordshire from 1692 until his death, a post which made him responsible for local militia. Capel also acted as Constable of the Tower of London, although both his father and grandfather had been locked up there. Capel's father was imprisoned in the Tower in 1683 on suspicion of involvement in the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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