Jane Cust, Mrs James Evelyn (1725-1791)
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750 - 1779
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
730 x 622 mm (28 3/4 x 24 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436047
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Jane Cust, Mrs James Evelyn (1725-1791) by Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), circa 1750. A half-length portrait of a lady, in a blue dress with white puffed sleeves and pearl ropes. Head ornament. Painting is inscribed on the rear. She was born 1725 at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. She was the second daughter of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Bt (1680-1734) and Anne Brownlow (1694-1779). In 1761 she married James Evelyn (d.1793), son of Edward Evelyn (1681-1751) and Julia Butler, the illegitimate daughter of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.
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
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), publisher