Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1835
Materials
Compo, Gesso, Oil gilt
Measurements
1770 x 1480 x 150 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485512
Summary
An English, late Neoclassical style frame for a portrait (NT/PET/P/57) by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837).
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 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.