Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gilbert Burnet NPG D30912

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Smith, after John Riley, published by Richard Tompson, published by Edward Cooper

Fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, respected as a cleric, preacher, and academic, as well as a writer and historian. Burnet became Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University in 1669, but resigned in 1674 and moved to London after a disagreement with his patron, the Duke of Lauderdale. In 1685, he fled to France, and then Holland, on being accused of plotting against James II. When William of Orange became king, he appointed Burnet as his royal chaplain. Burnet was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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