The Hon. John Cust, later 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH, FRS, MP, (1779-1853) (1779-1853) and his Brother the Hon. and later the Reverend Henry Cockayne Cust (1780-1861)
John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1795
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1700 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436161
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. John Cust, later 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH, FRS, MP (1779-1853)and his Brother the Hon. and later the Reverend Henry Cockayne Cust (1780-1861) by John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810), 1795. Two full-length portraits, standing with a greyhound in a landscape. Earl Brownlow, the elder boy on the right with his dark coat buttoned, holds his hat in his left hand, and rests his right arm on the shoulder of his brother, who stands beside him with a greyhound in front; both boys have long curly hair, dark coats, with white waistcoats and stocks, with brown breeches and white hose, black shoes; a background of distant horizon with woody landscape, with a stream on the left. John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow was 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, thirdly, 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; 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 President of the Royal Archaeological Society 1841-1849. Reverend the Hon. Henry Cockayne Cust was the second son of Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton (1744-1807) and Frances Bankes, Lady Brownlow (1756-1847). He married Lady Anna Maria Elizabeth Needham (d.1866), daughter of General Francis Needham, 12th Viscount and 1st Earl of Kilmorey (1748-1832) and Anne Fisher, on 20 June 1816. He graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) and was Canon of Windsor. He lived at Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England. He took the name of Cockayne Cust when he inherited the Cockayne Hatley Estate. His son Henry Francis Cockayne Cust (1819-84) was the father of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne Cust (1867-1927), 5th Baron Brownlow.
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
John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810), artist