Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1770 - 1800
Materials
gilt wood
Measurements
890 x 1380 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485527
Summary
An English, late eighteenth century, Neoclassical frame for a painting (NT/PET/P/85) by Adam van der Meulen (1631-1690) of bandits holding up travellers.
Provenance
According to Collins Baker, probably bought at the Calonne Sale, 3rd day, March 1795, lot 21. 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.