Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
Poplar and gilding
Measurements
827 x 945 x 50 mm
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Knole, Kent
NT 131322
Summary
Picture frame for oil painting on canvas, Bandits robbing Travellers by Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), circa 1639. The fine 18th-century Maratta frame on Salvator Rosa's Landscape with Bandits (no. 170) is clearly Italian (rather than English) for it is lap-jointed and carved in poplar; in construction it is like the frames on some of the 3rd Duke's other old master purchases already seen in Lady Betty Germain's Sitting Room. The main leaf-and-tongue ornament sits in the hollow of the frame, in contrast to the adjoining portrait of An Italian Youth (no. 165), a pine frame where the embellishment is on the sight edge. (Jacob Simon, A Guide to Picture Frames at Knole, NPG website). English, 1740-80. Of carved, gilt and regilt manufacture (P. Levi, 1988).