Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor NPG x32771
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Harry John Kempsell, for French and Co
Anglo-African composer born in London to an English mother and Creole father, Dr Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor from Sierra Leone, whom he never knew. He began playing the violin at the age of five, joining the choir of St George's Presbyterian Church in Croydon, where H. A. Walters oversaw his musical development and later helped organise his admission to the Royal College of Music in 1890. He came to prominence in 1898 at the Gloucester Festival with an orchestral Ballade in A Minor, followed by... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










