Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
compo and gilt
Measurements
1225 x 1118 x 107 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486786
Summary
A neoclassical frame for a landscape (NT/PET/P/48*) by Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682) of a waterfall.
Provenance
Acquired by the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) at the sale of Robert Bragge, Longford, 6-11 March 1748/9, second day, lot 27 for £10. 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.