Almost identical to the frame on Stuart Murray (unaccessioned item, id. no. 60969) the frame is in the form of Italian cassetta frames, but uses surfaces from other sources. It is very wide, the base plank having been machined from a 9 in by 1 in board. It is not the widest of this type in the collection; the frame on Arthur Loureiro’s The vision of St. Stanislaus is 13 ins wide.(99-2). The frame here is in direct contrast to another framing of a Longstaff portrait of Mrs John H. Connell (1900) (656-2), which uses a swept-edge Louis XV frame, also by John Thallon at the same address.