Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gesso, Oil gilt, Wood
Measurements
1955 x 1155 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485646
Summary
A frame for a full-length portrait (NT/PET/P/499) of the circle of Hans Eworth (fl.1520 -1574) of Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney (c.1530-1586).
Provenance
Recorded at Penshurst in c.1737. Sold as part of the estate of Lady Sidney Sherard (d.1758), at Langford's Covent Garden, 10 May 1764, lot 3. Recorded at Petworth in 1775. 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.