Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
Water gilt, Wood
Measurements
1047 x 1760 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485539
Summary
A Louis XV style carved wood and water gilt, regilded, frame for a landscape (NT/PET/P/114) near Nijmegen by Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691).
Provenance
In Petworth collection by 1834 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.