Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1810 - 1830
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
1360 x 1195 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485655
Summary
An English, circa 1810-1830, frame with Regency heavy corners for three-quarters length portraits (NT/PET/P/562) by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) and his daughter, Mary Wyndham, Lady Munster (1791-1842).
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. 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.