Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King James II NPG D22819

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Faithorne, after Cornelius Johnson (Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen)

James II became king in 1685 as his brother Charles II left no legitimate heir. Before inheriting the throne, James took an active role in politics. He championed English commercial interests, becoming governor of the Royal Fisheries Company and the Royal Africa Company which had a monopoly over the trade in enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. A convert to Roman Catholicism ruling a largely Protestant population, he advocated greater tolerance towards Catholics in his Declaration of Indulgence of 1687. When the Archbishop of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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