Ramón Lletget

‘Gilder on wood’ to the Royal Household from 1799 and honorary decorator of the Royal Palace from 1815. The work we know of that was undertaken by Lletget was the cleaning and repairing of gilding on frames for works of the Spanish School, which was carried out from 20th April 1819 to 20th March 1820. According to his invoice, he gilded three hundred and twenty-four frames, painted the handrails of the three rooms in faux bronze, and gilded a large lantern, and a small wooden plaque with the name of the Museum, which was installed at the entrance. Between Ramón Lletget repaired some frames and gilded those overall new frames. The last account signed by him is dated 31 December 1833 (Castillo, S. Marcos, muebles y maderas: obras de carpintería, ebanistería y enmarcado en el Museo del Prado (1818-38), Boletín del Museo del Prado, T. XXXIII, Nº 51, 2015: 100-111, https://theframeblog.com/tag/vicente-roson/)