Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Whitefield NPG D4780

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Johann Elias Haid, after M. Jenkin

Whitefield was a major force in the development of Methodism and the widespread evangelical revival of the early eighteenth century. In the 1730s he was a member of John Wesley's 'Holy Club' at Oxford but, favouring a more Calvinistic form of Methodism, Whitefield broke from Wesley in 1741. The Anglican Church had not assigned him pulpit so he began preaching in parks and fields in England on his own, reaching out to people who normally did not attend church. Whitefield's fervour, his small stature,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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