My latest delivery of stamps has just arrived and it is the portrait selection from 2006 (SG 2640-2649). They were released to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery. Check out the slideshow below:
Paintings of some of the most influential people in the world are featured. I have managed to acquire the first day of issue 10 stamp set and it was well worth the effort. The detail is extraordinary.
The portraits are:
‘Sir Winston Churchill’ by Walter Sickert
‘Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (self-portrait)
‘T.S. Eliot’ by Patrick Heron
‘Emmeline Pankhurst’ by Georgina Agnes Brackenbury
Virginia Woolf (photo) by George Charles Beresford
Bust of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantry
‘Mary Seacole’ by Albert Charles Challen
‘William Shakespeare’ attributed to John Taylor
‘Dame Cicely Saunders’ by Catherine Goodman
‘Charles Darwin’ by John Collier
If you like portraits and you like stamps…well, this will be the thing for you.
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