Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1835
Materials
compo and oil and water gilt
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486799
Summary
An 1835 corner pattern Lawrence style frame for a three-quarters length portrait (NT/PET/P/538*) by William Hoare (1706-1799) of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763).
Provenance
Painted for the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) 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.