The basic form of this frame is a solid plank of timber, flat across the reverse and bevelled across the face.

In May 1926 French Vogue published a photograph by Man Ray accompanied by the elegant description ‘Mother of Pearl Face and Ebony Mask

The former frame on St Jerome appears to be late eighteenth or early nineteenth century French, an Empire style frame in good, original condition.

The former framing of Conder, While daylight lingers, 1890, (formerly Yarding sheep) acquired in 1944, is in the Louis XIV style.

The wide, flat, gilded direct to oak frame on E. Boroughs Johnson, A Salvation Army Shelter, 1891 poses a number of questions.

The frame on Night (no.2) appears to be French, most likely from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, recycled to the painting.

The French, Régence, Louis XIV frame on Largilliere’s portrait Crown Prince Frederick Augustus of Saxony is carved in o

The former framing of Portrait of a gentleman in grey coat, c.1747, dated to the late nineteenth century.

The former framing of Berckheyde The Town Hall, Amsterdam, 1690, acquired 1920, was a nineteenth century, gilded composition frame in a loosely French eighteenth century style.

The reframing of An officer of the Fourth Regiment of Foot, c.1776-1780, by Thomas Gainsborough, was developed over a number of years, starting in 2002.

The reframing of The melon (c.1860’s or 1880) followed on from the work on The House at Ruei

The reframing of The ship’s deck (c.1860) followed on from the reframing work on The House at Ruei

The project to reframe Manet’s, The house at Rueil, 1882, began in 2006. Proposals for reframing were tabled at a frame committee meeting in Apri

The frame on Louise-Marie de France is a fine example of carved and gilded swept edge Louis XV French frames.

The frame on the watercolour, Soldiers in a lorry, 1942-43, by Burra is the original, made by Alfred Stiles and Sons, London.