Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Stanley NPG D14076

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by Mary Ann Rigg (née Scott), after Thomas Gainsborough

Born in London on 17 January 1712, Stanley was blinded at the age of two by falling on a a marble hearth while holding a china basin in his hand. At the age of seven he was placed under the organist John Reading and then became a pupil of Maurice Greene, organist at St Paul's Cathedral. Stanley held a number of organist appointments including the prestigious position at St Andrew's, Holborn. In 1729 he became the youngest person to graduate at Oxford with a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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