Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
pine and water gilt
Measurements
1220 x 990 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485643
Summary
An English running pattern Louis XIII pine frame carved with acanthus and shell for a three-quarter length portrait (NT/PET/P/461) by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) of Elizabeth Alington, Lady Seymour of Trowbridge (c.1632-1691).
Provenance
In the collection of the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) by 1763. 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.