The former framing of the painting was a re-worked nineteenth century frame which had been given a 1920’s stippled surfac

A supply of Californian redwood timber (Sequoia sempervirens) was found in 2006/7 in the form of a plank from the base of a wardrobe in a timber yard in Warnambool….

The first oil painting attributed to Rembrandt came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1933.

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

When acquired in 2008, Leon Pole’s The village laundress, 1891, was framed with a fluted scotia fram

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

Nathaniel Dance’s portrait group The Pybus Family, c.1760, came to the collection with the original eighteenth century English frame in the Carlo Maratta styl

The frame on Ribera’s The Martyrdom of St Lawrence (1620-24) (acquired 2006) is believed to have been made for a former owner of the painting Count Anatole Nikolaievich Demidov (1813-1870)…

Zoffany Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath, 1756, arrived from New York after purchase in 1994, fitted with an eighteenth century English carved timber frame.

Meyer Daniel Altson’s Winged words, portrait of the artist’s wife, 1926, came into the collection with this frame in 1967 which has the Rowley label on the reve

The pair of paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby that came into the collection in 2009 as a gift from one of the painters descendants living in Melbourne, came with…

The pair of paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby that came into the collection as a gift in 2009 from one of the painters descendants living in Melbourne, came with…

The portrait of Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet of Henham Hall by Peter Lely came into the collection with this frame which carries the label of E.F.

NGV International | 2 June – 8 October 2017 | Free Entry From the tranquil smile of an enlightened icon to the widely recognisable laughing Buddha, nine iterations and cultural…

The Rt Hon. John Rous, 6th Baronet, later first Earl of Stradbroke in Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry Uniform came into the collection in 2010 with a Carlo Maratta style frame.