Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward (Edouard) Lanteri NPG x19884

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Charles Beresford

Of French birth, Edward Lanteri trained in Paris and came to London in 1872 to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm. Although a skilful carver of stone, most of his work was modelled and cast in bronze. Far removed from the classicism of his British contemporaries, the sculptural style he brought from France was particularly influential on exponents of the 'New Sculpture' in the 1880s and 1890s. From 1880, he was also an important teacher of sculpture at the South Kensington... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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