Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert West; Matthew William Peters NPG 2169

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Matthew William Peters

In this ambitious drawing Matthew William Peters has shown himself having his portrait taken by his master, the Irish painter, Robert West, who excelled in chalk and crayon drawings. West set up an influential drawing school in Dublin where Peters trained before coming to London, probably in 1759, to study under Thomas Hudson. Peters made several trips to Italy and France, becoming the pupil of Pompeo Batoni in Rome, but eventually decided to give up his artistic career and entered the Church in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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