Sir Leslie Stephen Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Leslie Stephen NPG L238

Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Frederic Watts

This portrait was painted in a single sitting on 17 January 1878 as a wedding present for Stephen's fiancée, Julia Duckworth. A contemporary reviewer described Stephen's appearance in the painting as 'critical yet deprecating, sarcastic and mournful, fastidious, thoughtful and Bohemian: not one who ranks either himself or others very high, or expects much from a life that appears to him full of errors of taste, weaknesses of intellect, and futilities of aim'. The introspective, even melancholic, tone seems characteristic of Stephen's personality.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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