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Category
Frames
Date
1770 - 1800
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
397 x 280 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485615
Summary
An English, late eighteenth century Neoclassical, frame for a Flemish School, c.1516-1520, portrait (NT/PET/P/302) of the Emperor Charles V (1500-1588).
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.