Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1820 - 1830
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
801 x 932 x 100 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485528
Summary
An English, Neoclassical/Early Victorian eclectic style frame, 1820-1830, for a painting (NT/PET/P/87) by Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) of John Knox preaching before the Lords of the Congregation, 10th June, 1559
Provenance
Bought by the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) from Sir David Wilkie between 1827 and 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.