William Kent Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
William Kent NPG D3485
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by William Aikman, after Alexander Bannerman
Kent came from humble origins, but gained knowledge of the classics when his early patrons took him on a Grand Tour of Italy, spending ten years studying, before being brought home in 1719 by Lord Burlington to decorate the ceilings at Burlington House (now the Royal Academy). One of the leading architects working in the Palladian style, he published Designs of Inigo Jones, 1727, and worked at Houghton, Holkham and Stowe, as well as in London on the Horse Guards and the Treasury... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










