Dorothy Cust (1729-1770)
attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
546 x 445 mm (21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436051
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dorothy Cust (1729-1770), attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), circa 1750. A three-quarter length portrait of the third daughter of Sir Richard Cust 2nd Bt (1680-1734) and Anne Brownlow (1694-1779), as a young woman, seated, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white satin dress tied with a blue bow at the breast with loops of pearls, holding a basket of flowers. Large rock in the background on the left, revealing a distant landscape view with trees and cloudy blue sky. Her brother, Sir John Cust (1718-1770), became Speaker of the House of Commons.
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
attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Joseph Wright of Derby (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797), artist