Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield NPG 3241

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt

This portrait of the great Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is the quintessence of Victorian portraiture: concentrating on the essentials of facial expression, dignifying the sitter and indicating his contribution to politics and national life. Originally Lord Ronald Gower had wanted Disraeli to sit to Millais, so that the portrait could be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. In 1881, Millais wrote to Disraeli pleading, 'I know that sitting to an Artist is attended with great inconvenience to Every public man, but I do hope you... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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