The frame is interesting on a number of levels. The walking stick presumably belonged to the sitter and is here attached as an artefact of remembrance. The historic source of the style is the Italian cassetta frame, but this frame is perhaps more closely related to the Watts frame: the profile at the inner edge is the one used by Thallon on the Watts frame for James Quinn’s Botticelli copy, but without the composition ornament. The Waite frame is also found on George Coates’ travelling scholarship picture from 1896 (a copy of van Dyck’s Portrait of Jean Grusset Richardot and Son [67.2]); Meyer Altson’s travelling scholarship picture from 1902 (a copy of van Dyck’s A man and child) and Bernard Hall’s painting Sleep, from c. 1906 (959-3). These frames can all safely be attributed to Thallon. The leading-edge fluted section appears on the frame for Hubert von Herkomer’s, Queen Victoria, dated 1891 and purchased in 1892. The Herkomer frame (attributed to the frame maker Dolman) might be seen as the point of departure for the Thallon frames. The canvas carries the stencil of W. & G. Dean, noting their activity as frame makers.2