Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Collier NPG 6811

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Marian Collier (née Huxley)

This portrait of the painter and art writer, John Collier, was made by his wife, Marian. It shows him at home with the tools of his trade standing before an easel on which a small portrait of Marian is positioned, making the work a kind of double portrait. Unlike her husband, however, she is not shown at work but as a fashionably-dressed woman, a contrast that recalls Victorian gender notions of active male and passive female. Originally titled An Artist at Work, it was exhibited... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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