Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Martin Archer Shee NPG D40683

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Thomas Fry, published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, after John Jackson

The Irish-born Shee was primarily a portrait painter. He moved to London in 1788 where, after working as an engraver, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1790. He was elected a full academician in 1805 An energetic reformer, Shee published Rhymes on Art, or the Remonstrance of a Painter (1800) which called for national support for the arts. The book was well received and was instrumental in the foundation of the British Institution in the same year.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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