Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Probably Johan Joseph Zoffany NPG 399

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Johan Joseph Zoffany

This self-portrait painted a year after his arrival shows him in a pensive moment with his 'porte-crayon' (pencil) and portfolio of drawings. This imagery relates to Zoffany's ambitions at a time when the actor David Garrick was helping him launch his career. With Garrick's encouragement, Zoffany invented a new kind of theatrical portrait which became widely known through prints. This increased his following among fashionable society and royalty and from the 1760s to 1780s he became one of the leading painters of conversation pieces... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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