Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Curtis, 1st Bt NPG D34477

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Sharp, after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Curtis founded the bank Robarts, Curtis, Were & Co in the 1780s after making some successful ventures in the Greenland whaling industry. He served as Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London and was a conspicuous and influential figure at Ramsgate, where he built Cliff House and kept a luxurious private yacht.He was elected MP for the City of London in 1790, and tenaciously defended the privileges of the Corporation of London and the interests of the mercantile community in parliament. Curtis was prominent as a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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