Frances Bankes, Lady Brownlow (1756 – 1847) with her Son the Hon. John Cust, later 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH, FRS, MP (1779-1853)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1783 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1250 x 1000 mm
Place of origin
England
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436155
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Bankes, Lady Brownlow (1756 – 1847) with her Son the Hon. John Cust, later 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH, FRS, MP (1779-1853) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), signed and dated 1783. A three-quarter-length portrait of a lady, seated and wearing a brown dress. Her son is wearing a white dress with a blue sash and standing at her knee. Distant horizon in the background with cloudy sky. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Bankes (1711-1774) an alderman and merchant of London and Frances Pembrooke; married in 1775 as his second wife, Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton (1744-1807) and brought with her a dowry of £100,000, and a collection of her father's pictures. She also bore him eleven children. John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow was born on 19 June 1779, the son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton (1744-1807) and Frances Bankes (1756-1847). He married, firstly, Amelia Sophia Hume (1787/8-1814), daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Bt and Lady Amelia Egerton, on 24 July 1810 at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, secondly Caroline Fludyer (1793/4-1824), daughter of George Fludyer and Lady Mary Fane, on 22 September 1818 at Ayston, Rutland and Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe (1792-1872), daughter of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lady Sophia Hobart, on 17 July 1828 at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge he graduated, in 1801 with an MA. He was a Fellow, of the Society of Antiquaries; MP (Tory) for Clitheroe 1802 and 1807; Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 May 1805 and succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Brownlow of Belton on 25 December 1807; Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 1809 and 1852; created 1st Viscount Alford of Alford on 17 November 1815 and 1st Earl Brownlow on 17 November 1815; became a Knight Grand Cross, of the Hanoverian Order in 1834 and was President of the Royal Archaeological Society 1841-1849.
Provenance
Sittings recorded for Lord Brownlow 1783 March 7, 10, 15, 19, 25, April 1, 7, 8, May 15, 20, June 2, 6, August 18 and for Master Cust in 1783, March 5, April 12, 14, May 19, June 11; 1784 June 9. 1784 and January 15 1785: Lady Brownlow's picture sent; Lord Tyrconnel Collection (recorded in an inventory in Arlington Street St James's April 1854; purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) fromEdward 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
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), publisher