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The Art of the Picture Frame
Updated 5 February 2008

This ongoing website feature arises out of the interest shown in the exhibition, The Art of the Picture Frame, held at the National Portrait Gallery from 8 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. It was launched in April 1998. It provides an update on the exhibition and gives information on current research.

Contributions are welcome on framing and reframing work at museums and galleries and on forthcoming publications and exhibitions, as are longer features on the history, technique and conservation of picture frames. Send to Jacob Simon, National Portrait Gallery, London WC2H 0HE or e-mail to jsimon@npg.org.uk. Tel: 020 7312 2416 (BT's Type Talk: 18001). Fax: 020 7306 0056.

	Directory of British picture framemakers 1750-1950
	Collection guides A Guide to Picture Frames at the National Portrait Gallery, London - temporarily withdrawn A Guide to Picture Frames at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire A Guide to Picture Frames at the Foundling Museum, London A Guide to Picture Frames at Knole, Kent Framing Italian Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery, London - by Jacob Simon Dresden Gallery Frames -- by Peter Schade Artists and their frames A note on Philip de Laszlo and picture framing -- by Lynn Roberts Thomas Gainsborough and picture framing Notes on the Frames in the Exhibition, Portraits by Ingres -- by Nicholas Penny A note on George Romney and picture framing Framing references in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Correspondence -- by Lynn Roberts Notes on John Singer Sargent's portrait frames Raeburn's Rival, Archibald Skirving 1749-1819: a Review of the Frames -- by Laura Houliston Whistler's Correspondence -- by Lynn Roberts Framemakers Identifying the Framemakers of 18th-century Paris -- by Edgar Harden A frame by Martha Somerville, a Victorian carver in Italy Other studies Extending frames Oxford frames Framing in the reign of Charles II and the introduction of the Sunderland frame Northern European Frames: a conference at Dresden -- by Lynn Roberts New York University Frame Conference
	Research and Publications
	Frames on the Internet Annotated bibliography of frame publications An update on the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, The Art of the Picture Frame The New Oxford Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - by Lynn Roberts

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