Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Adoration of the Shepherds’ (Thomas Jervais; Sir Joshua Reynolds) NPG D14926

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Georg Siegmund Facius, by Johann Gottlieb Facius, published by John Boydell, after Josiah Boydell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds was the first President of the Royal Academy and Britain’s leading portrait painter. In his attempt to raise the status of portraiture, he created the ‘Grand Manner’ which borrowed from classical antiquity and the Old Masters to fill his portraits with moral and heroic symbolism. An incredible socialite, social climber and self-promoter, Reynolds used his contacts to advance himself. Appointed President of the newly established Royal Academy in 1768, his annual lectures – or Discourses on Art – had a lasting impact… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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