Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Dighton in the character of Dennis O'Neal NPG D10955

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1772 and afterwards set up as a drawing-master and miniature portrait painter. The first prints that he designed were of actors in character for John Bell's edition of Shakespeare's works (1775-6). Dighton became well known as a caricaturist. He satirised lawyers, military officers, actors and actresses, as well as tailors, academics and the down-at-heel types. For a time he combined his career as artist and printseller with that of an actor and singer in the West End.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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