Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Julius Angerstein NPG D15647

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Scriven, published by Fisher Son & Co, after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Angerstein was an insurance broker, a philanthropist and connoisseur of art. Born in Russia, to a German family, Angerstein subsequently came to London to work in his father’s firm. Angerstein made much of his wealth as an underwriter with Lloyds of London, and much of that business was concentrated insurance of slave ships in the Atlantic. Angerstein also owned plantations in the Caribbean and was a trustee of enslaved peoples and estates in Grenada. Nonetheless, he belonged to the Committee for the Relief of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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