Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Girtin NPG D2439

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel William Reynolds, after John Opie

Girtin was one of the most original of all English watercolourists. He was a friend, rival and later an inspiration to Turner, with whom he worked closely. Taking extensive tours around Britain, he developed a romantic style of watercolour painting notable for its breadth, its marvellous effects of light and dark, and its mysterious atmosphere. He died young at the age of twenty-seven, shortly after completing his most ambitious and spectacular work, the Eidometropolis, a 360-degree panorama of London measuring over 100ft. Turner is... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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