Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1800
Materials
Compo, Overgilt, Wood
Measurements
1900 x 2530 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485514
Summary
An English, circa 1800, unusually good combination of a Morland and a Carlo Maratta style frame with applied sight edge carving for a painting (NT/PET/P/60) by Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) of Diomed and Cressida. All ornament is carved except for cross-ribbons on top edge which are in composition.
Provenance
Painted in Rome in 1789 for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. Bought at Boydell's sale, Christie's, 20 May 1805 by Sir William Burrell for £73.10s. and left in his will to the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837). 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.