Elizabeth Cust (1724-1769)
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1744
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
620 x 580 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436054
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Cust (1724 - 1769), attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 - London 1744). A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, seated, her left arm resting on a pedestal, facing, gazing at the spectator, wearing a brown and white wrap-over dress. A black dog (spaniel) on the right, rears up with his front paws on her dress, a landscape background seen on the left with trees and a blue cloudy sky. The painter of this charmingly naive portrait has shown the spaniel chasing a bluebottle! Eldest daughter of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Bt of Pinchbeck (1680 - 1734), and Anne Brownlow (1694 - 1779).
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 Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist