Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1800 - 1830
Materials
Compo, Gesso, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
790 x 640 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485570
Summary
An early nineteenth century English neoclassical revival style frame for a portrait (NT/PET/P/167) of an unknown Genoese Lady by van Dyck (1599-1641) with applied carved gilt top centre moulding.
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.