Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘A Conversation of Virtuosis…at the Kings Arms’ NPG 1384

National Portrait Gallery, London

by Gawen Hamilton

Painted in 1734-5 to ‘promote his interest’ (the completed picture was raffled, each sitter paying four guineas). Grouped round Matthew Robinson, amateur draughtsman and father of Elizabeth Montagu, the blue-stocking, are some of the leading artists and architects of the 1730s, who used to meet at the King’s Arms in New Bond Street, London.

From the left:
George Vertue, antiquary and engraver, 1683-1756, who described the picture in his Notebooks.
Hans Hysing, portrait painter, 1678-1753
Michael Dahl (seated), portrait… more

product-description-split

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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