Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Fanny Mary Bernard-Beere (née Whitehead) NPG x5164

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Eglington & Co

Fanny Whitehead was born in Norwich, the daughter of the landscape artist, Francis Wilby Whitehead and a goddaughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Made her stage debut at the Opera Comique in 1877. Bernard-Beere’s most celebrated roles included Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd (1882) and Fédora (1883). Toured the United States in 1892, followed by Australia and India. In 1893 she was cast as Mrs Arbuthnot in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance. ‘ Mr Oscar Wilde’ she told the interviewer… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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