Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Prout NPG 1618

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Jackson

As a young man, Prout tried to earn a living as an illustrator and accompanied the historical painter B. R. Haydon on a tour of Devon. He produced some good work but his drawings were not of a consistently high standard for publisher John Britton to use. Prout moved to London in 1812. While trying to improve his style by studying the great landscape artists, he dabbled in the newly invented art of lithography and earned a living painting marine pieces and teaching.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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