Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1600 - 1799
Materials
wood and gesso and oil gilt
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486796
Summary
A seventeenth to eighteenth century English, oak and acorn motif on a cushion moulding, frame for a three-quarter length portrait (NT/PET/P/385*) by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) of Sir John Banks (c.1627-1699).
Full description
An English, first half of the nineteenth century, Carlo Maratta style frame
Provenance
Recorded at Petworth in 1828. 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.