Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1600 - 1700
Materials
Limewood, Oak, Paint
Measurements
2110 x 1320 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485557
Summary
An English seventeenth century elaborately carved Grinling Gibbons style frame of exceptional quality with pierced carving and cushion moulding for a full-length, circa 1620, portrait (NT/PET/P/141) of Francis, Lord Seymour of Trowbridge (c.1590-1664) the grandfather of the Proud Duke, in the manner of William Larkin (op.1610-1620). This frame is a pair to PET/FR/139.
Provenance
In the collection of the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) at his death. 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.