Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bt NPG D17323

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Bone, after Benjamin West

Baring was one of the most powerful businessmen of the Regency period and celebrated as the 'first merchant in Europe'. He established the London trading house Barings in 1762 and soon became an important government financial adviser and a key financier of the nation's war effort. He was an MP from 1784 and was honoured with a baronetcy 1793. As Director of the East India Company from 1779 to 1806 he opposed attempts by the government to exert greater political control over the company: 'India... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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