Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gerrit van Honthorst NPG D28271

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Pieter de Jode I, after Gerrit van Honthorst, published by Johannes Meyssens

Gerrit van Honthorst was a Dutch painter from Utrecht. He travelled to Italy in 1616, where he copied the naturalism and eccentricities of Caravaggio. Honthorst spent four years painting in Rome after which he returned to Utrecht and set up a successful painting school. The queen of Bohemia, sister of Charles I and electress palatine, an exile in the Netherlands, appointed him as drawing master to her children. He became known to her brother Charles, who in 1628 invited Honthorst to England to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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