Captain, the Hon. Charles Henry Cust (1813-1875)
Sir Martin Archer Shee (Dublin 1769 - Brighton 1850)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1030 x 700 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436113
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Captain, the Hon. Charles Henry Cust (1813 - 1875) by Sir Martin Archer Shee, PRA (Dublin 1769 - Brighton 1850). A half-length portrait of a man, head turned slightly to the right, in cuirass and military uniform of the Royal Horse Guards. The sitter was born on 27 September 1813. He was the son of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow (1779 - 1853) and Amelia Sophia Hume (1787/8 - 1814). He married Caroline Sophia Macdonald (d.1887), daughter of Ranald George Macdonald of Clanranald and Moidart and of Benbecula (1788 - 1873) and Lady Caroline Anne Edgcumbe (d.1824), on 8 September 1842. He was a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards and MP for North Shropshire. Their child was: Alice Marian (1845 - 1919) who married Lt-Col. Allan Roger Charles Porcelli-Cust.
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
Sir Martin Archer Shee (Dublin 1769 - Brighton 1850), artist