Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake NPG 3944(22)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Partridge

As one of the first painters to arrive in Italy after the Continent reopened in 1815, Charles Eastlake came to dominate the British colony of artists in Rome. Most days, he would spend dangerously long hours sketching the campagna and its people in the sun, and was consequently nicknamed Carlo the Salamander by his artist-friends. Given that Eastlake would later become President of the Royal Academy in 1850 and the first Director of the new National Gallery in 1855, his leadership capacity is also seen... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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