Elizabeth Cust, Mrs John Cockayne (1649-1739)
Brian Birde (fl.1686)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1686 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 622 mm (28 x 24 1/2 in)
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435946
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Cust, Mrs John Cockayne (1649-1739) by Brian Birde (fl.1686), signed and dated: Brianus Birdeus Pinxit: Anno: 86 (1686) on lower right rim of painted sculptured oval. Painted oval. Half-length portrait, turned to right, facing, dark hair, wearing a low cut chemise, with jewelled button at breast. Ringlet of hair falling over her right shoulder onto tasselled classical drape. She was born in 1649 the daughter of Sir Richard Cust, 1st Bt (1622-1700) and Beatrice Pury (1623-1715) and married in 1670 John Cockayne of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire which, after the death of their only son Samuel in 1745, passed successively to cadet members of the Cust family, who incorporated the name Cockayne into their own.They had two children: Elizabeth 'Betty' Cockayne (1674-1736) and Samuel Cockayne (d.1745).
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
Brian Birde (fl.1686), artist