Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Haslewood Shannon; Charles de Sousy Ricketts NPG x32790

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Charles Beresford

Born in Quarrington, Lincolnshire to a country rector, Shannon had a more conventional upbringing than his lifelong partner Charles de Sousy Ricketts and his personality was more reserved. Oscar Wilde likened him to a marigold to Ricketts's orchid. Inspired by a meeting with the French artist Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes in 1887, Shannon retired from the world to perfect his abilities as a painter while Ricketts provided an income through work as an illustrator. After a decade studying Old Masters such as Titian,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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