Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1770 - 1800
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
1450 x 2155 x 110 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485523
Summary
A late 18th century, English Neoclassical Morland style, frame for a painting (NT/PET/P/80) by George Romney (1734-1802) of Mirth and Melancholy.
Provenance
Lot 114 in the Romey sale, Christie's, on 27 April 1807, and bought in. Resold at Christie's sale on 9 May 1834, lot 98 and bought by 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.