Sir Pury Cust (1655-1698/9)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
730 x 620 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436108
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Pury Cust (1655-1698/9), British (English) School. A feigned stone ova half-length portrait of a man, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, in a brown cloak and white lace jabot. He was the son of Sir Richard Cust, 1st Bt (1622-1700) and Beatrice Pury (1623-1715). He married, firstly Ursula Woodcock, daughter of Edward Woodcock, on 21 August 1678 and, secondly, Alice Savile, daughter of William Savile, before 1698. He was invested as Knight in around 1660. His children by Ursula Woodcock: Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Bt (1680-1734), who married Anne Brownlow (1694-1779) and by Alice Savile: Savile Cockayne Cust (1698-1772); Mary Cust (1679-1718) who married Robert Thompson (1667/8-1711); Ursula Cust (1683/4-1757) who married Richard Newton (d.1737). Sir Pury predeceased his father, hopelessly in debt. Only when his son Sir Richard was free of the debt in 1715, at the age of 35, could he aspire to marry the future Brownlow heiress, Anne Brownlow (1694-1779) who brought Belton into the Cust family. Pury maintained a troop of horse 1689-90, but never seems to have taken part in any engagement. He died on 21 February 1698/99.
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)
Marks and inscriptions
Sir Purey Cust (on front at bottom left an on rear of painting)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Simon Pietersz Verelst (The Hague 1644 - London 1721), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist