Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Bacon the Elder; Samuel Johnson (on reverse) NPG D2907

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Shepherd Wyon, and after John Bacon the Elder

John Bacon the Elder was a sculptor, responsible for some important monuments, and a variety of statues in London and elsewhere. He was born in Southwark, son of a clothworker, learnt modelling under a porcelain maker in Lambeth, and by 1867 had become a modeller for Mrs Coade's Lambeth factory, while studying at the Royal Academy Schools. He later also worked for Wedgwood. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1770, and full Academician in 1777, and it was from around... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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