Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1810
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
1280 x 1503 x 110 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485664
Summary
An English, circa 1810, Morland style frame for a painting (NT/PET/P/657) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) of a tan and white setter.
Provenance
Recorded at No. 4, Grosvenor Place in 1847 and at Petworth in 1856. 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.