Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1800 - 1850
Materials
Gesso, Oil and water gilt, Wood
Measurements
1260 x 990 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485618
Summary
An English nineteenth century neoclassical, eclectic Carlo Maratta, frame for a three-quarters length portrait (NT/PET/P/310) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) of the Rt. Hon. George Grenville (1712-1770).
Provenance
Presumably painted for Percy Wyndham O'Brien, Earl of Thomond (paid for 1767 by 'Ld Tumont' 50 gns) whose sister Elizabeth married George Grenville (1712-1770). Left by Lord Thomond to his nephew, George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837). 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.