Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Stanley NPG D4294

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Macardell, after Unknown artist

Born in London on 17 January 1712, Stanley was blinded at the age of two by falling on a a marble hearth while holding a china basin in his hand. At the age of seven he was placed under the organist John Reading and then became a pupil of Maurice Greene, organist at St Paul's Cathedral. Stanley held a number of organist appointments including the prestigious position at St Andrew's, Holborn. In 1729 he became the youngest person to graduate at Oxford with a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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