Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1800 - 1830
Materials
Compo, Gilt, Wood
Measurements
865 x 1480 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485667
Summary
An English early nineteenth century Morland frame with composition decoration for a circa 1742 painting (NT/PET/P/667) by Bernardo Bellotto (1720-1780) of the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome.
Provenance
The picture is appparently first recorded in Venice but was 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.