Laundresses washing Clothes at a Fountain (after Jan Miel)
The Hon. Elizabeth Cust (1776 - 1858)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1802 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
432 x 635 mm (17 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436018
Caption
Elizabeth Cust was, like a number of other noblewomen of her day, including the Countess of Morley at Saltram and Viscountess Anson at Shrugborough - an accomplished copyist of Old Masters in oils. She was the daughter of the 1st Lord Brownlow, and, as well as being a painter, compiled a scholarly catalogue of the pictures at Belton. This copy of a characteristic scene by the artist known as Il Bamboccio is signed on the front and back.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Laundresses washing Clothes at a Fountain (after Jan Miel) by the Hon.Elizabeth Cust (1776-1858), signed and inscribed by The Hon. Elizabeth Cust and dated 1802 on the reverse.
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
The Hon. Elizabeth Cust (1776 - 1858), artist after Jan Miel (Flanders 1599 – Turin 1664), artist