Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1830
Materials
Compo, Gilt
Measurements
1575 x 2390 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485639
Summary
An English, circa 1830, Lawrence style frame for a painting (NT/PET/P/449) by Washington Allston (1779-1843) depicting Jacob's Dream.
Provenance
Bought by the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) at the Royal Academy exhibition, 1819, no.309. 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.