Fine Art & Painting Greeting Cards

Text on the reverse side:Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 typ...

Text on the reverse side: Whistling buoys help sailors find their way in foggy and misty weather. As the buoy bobs up and down in the water, compr...

Text on the reverse side:Throughout the Tudor period, dogs were popular pets and were often kept as guard dogs and used for hunting. The breed of d...

Text on the reverse side: The Pouf was a hairstyle popularised in France in the 18th century by Marie Antoinette. It was created by pinning the ha...

Text on the reverse side:Following his father's imprisonment at Marshalsea Prison for debt, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), then aged just 12 years ol...

Text on the reverse side:Charles Dickens (1812-1870) began his writing career aged 20 as a journalist and parliamentary reporter. During this time ...

Text on the reverse side:Upon visiting Venice for the first time when he was 68, Monet completed 37 paintings of the city, mainly depicting well-kn...

Text on the reverse side:Monet considered his 1908 Venice paintings to be souvenirs rather than serious artworks. However, in 1912, he agreed to st...

Text on the reverse side:Gilding, the painting and layering of gold accents, was often the final stage of decorating French porcelain. As houses we...

Text on the reverse side:In France, teashops were historically frequented more by women whereas coffee shops, or cafés, were more popular with men....

Text on the reverse side:Illustration from Johnson's household book of nature featuring the common bat, vampire bat, dog headed bat, horseshoe bat ...

Text on the reverse side:Painting by British painter Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894) who gained popularity from painting children and their pets....

Text on the reverse side:Pissarro painted this from his balcony at No.1 Gloucester Terrace, with Kew Green in the foreground, Kew Road to the left,...

Text on the reverse side:Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over th...

Text on the reverse side:Pissarro described the city of Paris as having a “silvery atmosphere”. He painted the cityscape of Paris from his window o...

Text on the reverse side:A landscape painted near his rural home, Pissarro uses pointillism but with slightly broader brushstrokes. His revelatory ...

Text on the reverse side:St. Thomas, where the artist Camille Pissarro was born, is an island in the Southern Caribbean. Having been sent to a boar...

Text on the reverse side:Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly know...

Text on the reverse side:Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly know...

Text on the reverse side:The design comes from tiles made by Minton Hollins in the late 19th century. Produced during the Aesthetic Movement in Bri...

Text on the reverse side:Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, the Chinese name Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means The One Who Perceives the Sound...

Text on the reverse side:Imperial Chinese embroidery portraying the thousand arms and eleven heads of Guanyin. This manifestation of the compassion...

Text on the reverse side:From a Chinese embroidery in silk, metallic thread and horsehair. Vajrabhairava scares selfishness and egoism - the main c...

Text on the reverse side:Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, both considered masters of the Impressionist art movement, formed a bond both on a...

Text on the reverse side:Based in Albermarle Street, the institution was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age for diffusing...

Text on the reverse side:The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, led the expansion of the American steel industry ...

Text on the reverse side:By Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The artist placed a copy of ‘La joie de Vivre’ by Emile Zola, a novel he regarded as a bi...

Text on the reverse side:Throughout van Gogh’s career, wheat fields have been a great source of inspiration for the artist, serving as a subject du...

Text on the reverse side:This is the only painting where Van Gogh paints the 13th century church in Auvers in its full form. Through the energetic ...

Text on the reverse side:Throughout van Gogh’s career, wheat fields have been a great source of inspiration for the artist, serving as a subject du...

Text on the reverse side:The cypress is a tree closely associated to the Provence landscapes where van Gogh lived during the last years of his life...

Text on the reverse side:Throughout Van Gogh’s career, wheat-fields have been a great source of inspiration for the artist serving as a subject dur...

Text on the reverse side:A lithograph poster c.1893 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to promote a café-chantant musical establishment which was at the ...

Text on the reverse side:Painted by Mary Cassatt, depicted is a woman at the Opera. In the late 19th century, the Opera was trendy activity and a p...

Text on the reverse side:Parrots are well known for being chatty. With an impressive recognised set of 1,728 words, a cheery blue parakeet, Puck, g...

Text on the reverse side:Deserts may look quite boring during the day, but they transform into amazing flower ‘fields’ after the sundown. Many Cact...