Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Somerset Maugham NPG x46630

© estate of Daniel Farson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Farson

Farson first met the author of Of Human Bondage (1915) and Cakes and Ale (1930) through his godfather Tom Seyster, while a student of Ashbury College, Canada. Farson found Maugham to be 'astringent, withdrawn, cynical and parsimonious, but … he befriended me with a gentleness which belied his reputation.' Farson photographed Maugham when invited to spend Christmas 1947 at the Villa Mauresque. 'Maugham was a grand old man, submitting grimly when I photographed him in the garden with my small camera … Flinching every time,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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