Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gesso, Gilt, Poplar
Measurements
610 x 480 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485578
Summary
A French Italian nineteenth century composition frame for a portrait bust (NT/PET/P/190) of a young man, called 'A Spanish Minstrel', by Alexis Grimoux (c.1680-1733).
Provenance
Bought by the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) for £7.7. 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.