Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Frank (Athelstane) Swettenham NPG 4837

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Singer Sargent

This portrait of the colonial administrator, Sir Frank Swettenham, was painted in 1903 by the leading society portraitist of the time, the American artist John Singer Sargent. It was commissioned by the Malay Straits Association of London who oversaw the governance of a British colonial group of territories located in Southeast Asia. Swettenham, who was responsible for the development of roads, railways and social services in the Malay States, is shown here surrounded by accessories evoking his Far Eastern career: a huge globe just visible in the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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