Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1850
Materials
Water gilt, Wood
Measurements
2296 x 1493 x 75 mm; 30.7 kg (Weight)
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485535
Summary
A mid-eighteenth century English or Dutch Rococo style frame for a full-length portrait (NT/PET/P/101) of Ralph, Lord Hopton (1598-1652) after Daniel Mytens (1590-1642).
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont by 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.