Sir George Scharf Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir George Scharf NPG 985

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter William Ouless

This portrait of the Gallery’s first Director Sir George Scharf was commissioned by a group of his friends and supporters in 1884. It shows him in the act of sketching, with notebook open and pencil poised. Over the course of his long career Scharf, a talented draughtsman, filled more than 150 sketchbooks with careful drawings of British historical portraits encountered in public and private collections around the country, as well as with daily incidents of Victorian life. In fact, whilst providing an early sitting for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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