Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir George Alexander MacFarren NPG x134521

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lock & Whitfield

The musician George Macfarren experienced difficulties with his eyesight from early childhood, influencing him in the choice of composing rather than performing music. A prolific composer who achieved celebrity for works such as the overture Chevy Chace (1836), Macfarren's career continued to flourish after the onset of blindness in the early 1860s, as aided by assistants, he carried on producing new works. In 1875, Macfarren became principal of the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. Knighted in 1883,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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