Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
2380 x 1210 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485553
Summary
An elaborately carved Grinling Gibbons style frame for a full-length portrait (NT/PET/P/135) of Henry VIII (1491-1547) painted by Rowland Lockey (c.1567-c.1616) after Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543).
Provenance
In the collection of the 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748) at Petworth by 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.