Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler NPG x12544

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company

Born in America, Whistler originally trained to be a soldier at West Point, before studying painting in Paris and moving to London around 1860, where he remained. An advocate of the aesthetic ideal of 'Art for Art's Sake', and all-round provocative figure of the London art world, his nocturnes (which he described as ‘arrangement[s] of line, form and colour first’ and were famously criticised by John Ruskin for representing the equivalent of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face') and decorative... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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