Sir Daniel Macnee Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sir Daniel Macnee NPG Ax14932
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Maull & Polyblank
Sir Daniel Macnee was first employed making anatomical drawings and then painting snuff boxes at Cumnock, Strathclyde. At the age of about nineteen, he moved to Edinburgh to work for the engraver William Home Lizars, at the same time studying painting at the Trustees' Academy. He returned to Glasgow in 1830 and began to paint fancy heads and genre scenes, as well as portraits. Macnee was clever at catching a good likeness, and he soon gained popularity as a portrait painter. He rapidly built... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










