Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1600 - 1700
Materials
Limewood, Oak, Paint
Measurements
2080 x 1450 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485546
Summary
An English, seventeenth century, elaborately carved Grinling Gibbons style frame of exceptional quality with pierced carving and cushion moulding for full-length portraits (NT/PET/P/127) of the Duchess of Somerset (1667-1722) and her young son Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (1684-1750) by John Closterman (c.1660-1711). This frame is a pair to NT/PET/P/129.
Provenance
In the collection of the 6th Duke of Somerset at Petworth c.1730. 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.