Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1600 - 1700
Materials
Limewood, Oak, Paint
Measurements
2120 x 1200 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485543
Summary
An English seventeenth century elaborately carved Grinling Gibbons style frame with pierced carving and cushion moulding for a painting (NT/PET/P/124) attributed to the studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck, of King Charles I (1600-1649) on horseback. The frame is a pair with PET/P/146.
Provenance
Left unfinished in van Dyck's studio on his death, it was acquired by the 10th Earl of Northumberland (1602-1668) from Sir John Wittewronge Bt. for 'six smale peeces' in April 1646 and is described at Northumberland House in 1671. 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.