Dr the Very Reverend Richard Cust (1728-1783) Dean of Lincoln
George Allen (fl.1712 - 1755)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1762 (bears date)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
940 x 840 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436080
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dr the Very Reverend Richard Cust (1728-1783) Dean of Lincoln by George Allen (fl.1712-1755), bears an inscription and the date 1762. An painted oval half-length porttrait of a mature man, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, powdered wig, wearing clerical dress with white bands. He was the youngest son of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Bt. (1680-1734) and Anne Brownlow (1694-1779); married Mary Harris (d.1791), daughter of George Harris, in 1767. He was rector of Belton in 1770, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1765. He was Chaplain of the House of Commons; Dean of Lincoln and Dean of Rochester in 1779. He died in October 1783, without issue.
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
George Allen (fl.1712 - 1755), publisher