Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1700 - 1730
Materials
pine and gesso and oil gilt
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486800
Summary
An English, early eighteenth century, frame for an early eighteenth century English School painting (NT/PET/P/577*) of Orchard Wyndham, in Somerset.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. 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.