Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

General Officers of World War I NPG 1954

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Singer Sargent

Soon after the First World War, the director of the National Portrait Gallery received an unprecedented offer from the South African financier Sir Abraham Bailey, who wished to finance three new commissions for the gallery. Bailey's scheme for large-scale group portraits of Military and Naval heroes, and great Statesmen, was motivated by the wish to 'perpetuate in a manner worthy of commemoration, the features of those distinguished contemporaries who have upheld the Empire during the Great War'. The offer was enthusiastically received by the Director... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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