Jocosa Katerina Drury, Lady Cust (1748/9-1772) with her Niece, Lady Caroline Hobart, later Lady Suffield (1767-1850)
Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1676 x 927 mm (66 x 36 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 438063
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Jocosa Katerina Drury, Lady Cust (1748/9-1772) with her Niece, Lady Caroline Hobart, later Lady Suffield (1767-1850) by Benjamin West PRA (Swarthmore 1738 - London 1820) inscribed with names of sitters and artist: LADY CUST FIRST WIFE [OF] / SIR BROWNLOW CUST, CREATED [LORD] / BROWNLOW. AND HER [?]/ NIECE, LADY CAROLINE HOBA[RT]/ AFTERWARDS WIFE OF WILLIAM/ SECOND LORD SHEFFIELD./ PAINTED BY WEST. The painting has been cut down for reframing in seventeenth-century type mouldings forming part of overmantel and a larger version is at Blickling Hall, NT 355489.
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
Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820), artist