Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Russell, Lord Russell NPG D18703

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Peter Vanderbank (Vandrebanc), after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Russell was the grandson of the disgraced Earl and Countess of Somerset, who had scandalised the Jacobean Court. He was a Whig politician, known as 'The Patriot', who defended religious nonconformity, a limited monarchy and the right of resistance. He feared that if James, then Duke of York, became king he would overturn parliamentary power with policies promoting France, Catholicism and absolutism. He supported the Exclusion Bill which attempted to remove James from the order of succession. Russell maintained his innocence of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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