Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir James Thornhill NPG 5339

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir James Thornhill

Unlike many artists of the day, Thornhill did not make his living from portraits. He was a decorative painter specialising in complex historical and mythological murals for noble and public buildings. This painting is an unusual rhetorical self-portrait. It shows a beautiful female figure - an Allegory of Painting - working on a portrait of the artist. By suggesting that he was made, or inspired, by this personification of Art, Thornhill was making claims both for his own superiority as an artist and for the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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