Elizabeth Cust, Mrs John Cockayne (1649-1739) and her Daughter Elizabeth 'Betty' Cockayne (1674-1736)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1684
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1210 x 1490 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436143
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Cust, Mrs John Cockayne (1649-1739) and her Daughter Elizabeth 'Betty' Cockayne (1674-1736), British (English) School, previously attributed to Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687). Both half-length portraits, the mother in blue dress and red mantle, the daughter in yellow dress and pink mantle with roses gathered up in her drapery and a black and white King Charles spaniel. Painted on a terrace. Elizabeth Cust, the daughter of Sir Richard Cust, 1st Bt (1622-1700) and Beatrice Pury (1623-1715) married John Cockayne of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire in 1670 which, after the death of their only son Samuel in 1745, passed successively to cadet members of the Cust family, who incorporated the name Cockayne into their own. They had two children: Elizabeth 'Betty' Cockayne (1674-1736) and Samuel Cockayne (d.1745).
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
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687), artist