FAMAG 2004.17.3
A miniature seventeenth-century Netherlandish cabinetmaker's frame with bolection profile in stained and polished fruitwood, gilded sight edge; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited. (r)
About this work
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Insoll, Chris (born 1956): Dramatic Light, Pednevaden Point from Porthcurnick, 6 October 1993, signed and dated 1993, oil on hardboard, 15.8 x 27 cms. Grace Gardner gift 2004.
More information about the frame
Since 2006 all of Insoll?s framing has been done by his son, Toby, who is a Guild-Commended Framer (Fine Art Trade Guild). However, the present work had been framed over a decade earlier in a manner which did little justice to the painting, so the decision was taken to reframe it as a small landscape might have been presented historically during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The solution, as can be seen, is similar (although not identical) in style to the frame of Richardson?s The Bar Pool and boat-building yard at low tide, another landscape on a small scale. As in the latter, the width of the bolection moulding isolates the picture and pushes it out towards the spectator. In this case, the finish of the wood is cooler than in the frame of the Richardson, where the painting is tonally warmer and lighter; the gilded sight edge also gives a proportionately wider and more definite contour, in keeping with Insoll?s bold and painterly technique.