Dr The Very Reverend Richard Cust (1728-1783) Dean of Lincoln

George Allen II (fl.1712-1755). Oil painting on canvas, Dr The Very Reverend Richard Cust (1728-1783) Dean of Lincoln by George Allen (fl.1712-1755), bears an inscription and the date 1762. An painted oval half-length porttrait of a mature man, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, powdered wig, wearing clerical dress with white bands. The Reverend Richard Cust, was the youngest son of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Bt. (1680-1734) and Anne Brownlow (1694-1779); married Mary Harris (d.1791), daughter of George Harris, in 1767. He was rector of Belton in 1770, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1765. He was Chaplain of the House of Commons; Dean of Lincoln and Dean of Rochester in 1779 He died in October 1783, without issue. Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)