Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1800
Materials
Compo, Gesso, Oil and water gilt, Wood
Measurements
2720 x 3660 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485515
Summary
An English, circa 1800, frame for a painting (NT/PET/P/61) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) of Macbeth and the Witches (Act iv. sc.I).
Provenance
Commissioned by Alderman Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery, June 1786, who paid £500 on account. It was unfinished at the artist's death and according to W. Cotton, 'Reynolds' 1856, agreement was reached between the artist's executors and Boydell for a total sum of £1,000 for the work. In the Shakespeare Gallery sale, Christie's 20 May 1805, lot 56, bought by Lewis for £378. Sold by Lewis, Christie's 4 July 1807, lot no.36, bought by Bott or Both for £430. Acquired by the 3rd Earl of Egremont and at Petworth at the time of loan to British Institution. 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.