Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

(Katherine) Lilian Somerville (née Tillard) NPG P1063

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by J.S. Lewinski

Somerville studied at the Slade School of Art and was a painter until the Second World War. She joined the British Council in 1941, first working as a teacher and then as an organiser of art exhibitions on behalf of the Allied Governments. As a director of the Fine Arts Department (1947-1970), Somerville did much to promote British contemporary art abroad. In 1948 she chose the then little-known Henry Moore to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, which did much to raise his profile. She... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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