Pat. 1877 Spanish 18th Century
Pat. 3455 Spanish 16th Century
Pat. 1751 Spanish 17th Century
Pat. 3095 Spanish 16th Century
Two Centuries of Frame Making
In the year 1721 in a small Flemish village lived Grieve, a famous maker of masterful picture frames; whose sole ambition was to please the tastes of the great painters of his time.
The best mid-eighteenth century frames were made by him and his disciples. Grieve was the first to conceive the possibilities in his chosen field and to realize that a painting to be rightly appreciated had to be surrounded by a frame chosen artistically and with due regard to the effect of the painting on the spectator and of the whole as a work of art.