Jonathan Richardson Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jonathan Richardson NPG 1576d

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by or after Jonathan Richardson

One of the most successful native-born portraitists of the first decades of the eighteenth century, Richardson was the master of Thomas Hudson and George Knapton. He owned a superb collection of Old Master drawings. His Theory of Painting published in 1715, inspired the young Joshua Reynolds to become an artist. Richardson was exceptionally fond of drawing portraits of himself and his close friends; Horace Walpole later commented that 'after his retirement form the business the good old man seems to have... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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