This elegant style of frame, with its finely carved and gilded husk ornament surrounded by a delicate running pattern of acanthus leaf-and-flower in low relief, appears on a number of paintings in the Royal Collection. Although made in Britain, the style is French in inspiration and derives from a French Louis XIII pattern. First made during the reign of Charles II in the 1670s, frames of this type remained popular until the 1740s. The pattern is not unique to the Royal Collection.

The most significant works in this group include Lorenzo Lotto’s Portrait of Andrea Odoni (RCIN 7405776) presented to Charles II in 1660, which was presumably reframed at this time to hang at Whitehall, and Orazio Gentileschi’s Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife (RCIN 7405477). The latter was painted for Charles I and Henrietta Maria and first hung in the Queen’s House, Greenwich but was presumably re-framed by Charles II and recorded at Whitehall in 1688.