Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton (1899-1978)
Cathleen Sabine Mann, Marchioness of Queensberry (London 1896 – London 1959)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1949 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 x 495 mm (24 x 19 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435954
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton (1899-1978) by Cathleen Sabine Mann, Marchioness of Queensberry (London 1896 – London 1959), signed and dated 1949. A half-length portrait of a man shown seated, wearing a blue shirt and red cravat.He was the son of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow (1867-1927) and Maud Buckle (d.1936). He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, fighting in the First World War. He succeeded to the title of 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton on 19 April 1927. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in 1929, 1936-1950; Mayor of Grantham in 1934; close friend and Lord-in-Waiting to HM King Eward VIII in 1936 and was closely involved with the events surrounding the abdication; was a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and fought in the Second World War. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1940 and 1941, to the Minister of Aircraft Production. He was responsible, with his second wife Dorothy for much of the repair and redecoration of Belton in the 1960s and comissioned Francis Johnson to carry out a major restoration programme. He died on 28 July 1978 at age 79. Cathleen Sabine Mann was a Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1932.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
Cathleen Sabine Mann, Marchioness of Queensberry (London 1896 – London 1959), artist