Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1600 - 1700
Materials
Limewood, Oak, Paint
Measurements
1230 x 1000 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485544
Summary
An English seventeenth century elaborately carved Grinling Gibbons style frame of exceptional quality with pierced carving and cushion moulding for a three-quarters length portrait (NT/PET/P/125) by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) of Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Northumberland (1622-1705). The frame is a pair to PET/P/126 and PET/P/145.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) 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.