Antique & Handmade Replica Frames
Paul Mitchell Ltd is a long established family firm, with a gallery in London, specialising in the framing of Old and Modern Master paintings and drawings
Paul Mitchell’s client’s comprise museums, private collectors, dealers, auctioneers and art agents worldwide
Availability or size may restrict the use of antique frames. In this instance Paul Mitchell’s expert carvers and gilders can create the highest quality replica frames of all periods and finishes
Paul Mitchell also provides frame appraisals for individual works and collections as well as frame surveys
The latter has included The National Gallery of Art, Washington, Yale Center for British Art and The Royal Academy of Arts
Paul Mitchell Ltd’s unique photographic archive is also a key resource and the foundation for their two major publications and several studies on frame history
The company is a member of The British Antique Dealer’s Association and a partner of 'Sotheby’s Preferred’
With the help of the Paul Mitchell Photographic Archive, our two part essay explores the evolution of frames and their relationship to their architectural context, through time and across nationalities. Part 1 starts with their appearance in Egypt 3,500 years ago as the borders on wall paintings, and finishes with their opulence in France during the reign of Louis XIV.