Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil Gordon Lawson NPG 3889

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Hubert von Herkomer

Cecil Lawson learned to paint at home, following the example of his father, the portrait painter William Lawson, and his brother, also an artist. In 1869, he devoted himself to the study of Dutch seventeenth-century landscape, copying paintings in the National Gallery. He first had his work exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871, but he found this a dissatisfying outlet for his work, and began successfully to exhibit instead at the Grosvenor Gallery from 1878. He died, aged thirty, of an infection of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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