Tom Roberts’ Miss Isobel McDonald (1895) was previously framed in a simple, bevelled moulding with a painted, antiqued surface (see image above
The painting was painted in London and it seems likely the frame, being 19th century in origin and style, was recycled for use with the portrait.
This is a fine example of the frame that carries the artist’s name, on one of his own paintings.1 The other painting in the collection by Watts, Alfred Tennyson, (p.3
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Almost identical to the frame on Stuart Murray (unaccessioned item, id. no. 60969) the frame is in the form of Italian cassetta frames, but uses surfaces from other sources.
The frame is interesting on a number of levels. The walking stick presumably belonged to the sitter and is here attached as an artefact of remembrance.
This refined frame is a variant of the classical revival form.
This small-scale oil painting is close to the format of a miniature; the frame is nevertheless a form we might associate with larger-scale paintings.
One of the frames made for Bernard Hall by the Thallon company in its later years, under the direction of Ted Burman and using the Thallon label.
The frame is representative of a popular cassetta style used extensively by Thallon in the years following the middle 1880s.