Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1700 - 1800
Materials
Oil and water gilt, Wood
Measurements
1070 x 865 x 80 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485656
Summary
An English, eighteenth century, Carlo Maratta style frame but without applied acanthus running moulding, for a painting (NT/PET/P/572) by Gerrit Horst (c.1612-after 1662) of seven beggar boys.
Provenance
Acquired by the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) in 1752 for £21. 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.