Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Franz Xaver Winterhalter NPG Ax17191

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Leonida Caldesi

A German painter and lithographer known for his portraits of royalty. Trained in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich, Germany, he entered court circles in 1828 when he became drawing master to Sophie, later grand duchess of Baden, at Karlsruhe. After 1834, he went to Paris and quickly became fashionable under the protection of King Louis-Philippe and later at the court of Napoleon III. He was first summoned to the English court by Queen Victoria in 1841. During his career, he painted most... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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