Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow FSA, FRS, MP (1744 – 1807)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1779 (sittings recorded)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1257 x 1003 mm (49 1/2 x 39 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436152
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Brownlow Cust Ist Lord Brownlow FSA, FRS, MP (1744-1807) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1779. Inscribed. A three-quarter-length portrait, standing, turned to the left, in a brown coat with wide cuffs, under peers robes with his sword at his side; distant horizon with clouds to the right. Painted as a Gentleman Commoner of Cambridge University, to which he went up in 1762. Painted four years before the Romney of his wife and eldest son (NT 436155;BEL/P/226); sittings are recorded between May and June 1779, and the portrait cost 36 guineas. He was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir John Cust, 3rd Bt (1718-1770) Speaker of the House of Commons and Etheldred Payne (1720-1775). He married, firstly Jocosa Katherina Drury (1748/9-1772), daughter of Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Drury, 1st and last Baronet(1712-1759) and Martha Tyrrell (d.1768), on 16 October 1770 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England and, secondly, Frances Bankes (1756-1847), daughter of Sir Henry Bankes and Frances Pembrooke, on 31 August 1775 at St. James' Church, Westminster. He was educated at Eton and graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1766 with an MA. He was MP (Tory) for Ilchester 1768-1774 and Grantham 1774-1776. He was created 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton on 20 May 1776, for his late father's services. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) on 13 June 1776 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 8 May 1783. His sister, Elisabeth married Philip Yorke I of Erddig in 1770, who had been a friend of his at Cambridge. He died on 25 December 1807 at age 63 at Belton and is buried at Belton..
Provenance
Sittings recorded between May and June 1779, and cost 36 guineas; thence by descent until purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) fromEdward 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 Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), publisher