Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1835
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
1355 x 1605 x 132 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485497
Summary
An English, circa 1835, Lawrence style frame for a landscape (NT/PET/P/16) with children and cattle by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). The frame is in Lawrence style, with corner and centre pattern.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont in 1835, thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.