Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1830
Materials
Compo, Gesso, Oil gilt, Wood
Measurements
2850 x 1980 x 195 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485669
Summary
An English, circa 1830, Lawrence/Louis XIV style frame for a full-length portrait (NT/PET/P/695) by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) of George O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837).
Provenance
Posthumously painted for George Wyndham, 1st Lord Leconfield (1787-1869) 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.