Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Roy Strong and National Portrait Gallery Staff NPG x76737

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Valerie Lloyd

Strong was born in Winchmore Hill, north London, and after Edmonton Grammar School and a degree in History from the University of London, he took a PhD at the Warburg Institute. He became a Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and in 1959 was appointed Assistant Keeper at the National Portrait Gallery. In 1967, aged 32, he became Director of the Gallery, which he revitalised with innovative exhibitions such as Beaton Portraits (1968) and Samuel Pepys (1970). Strong was appointed Director of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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