Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1800
Materials
Compo, Gesso, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
1340 x 1830 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485629
Summary
A circa 1800 English, Morland/Maratta style, frame for an alpine scene (NT/PET/P/362) of a storm and avalanche, near the Scheideck by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812).
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. 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.