Lot 189
  • 189

Follower of Thomas Hudson

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Follower of Thomas Hudson
  • Portrait of Hans Busk (1718-1792), half length wearing a green and gold braided coat
  • inscribed lower left: Hans Busk 
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

The sitter's collection at Long Houghton Hall, Yorkshire;
By descent to his son-in-law Richard Slater Milnes (1784-1802), Fryston Hall, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire;
By descent to Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945), at Fryston Hall;
Thence by descent.

Literature

Manuscript Catalogue of Pictures at West Horsley, n.d., vol. 4, p. 1;
An Inventory […] of Pictures at West Horsley Place, Surrey, The property of the Marquess of Crewe, 1938, p. 27, in the ante room.

Catalogue Note

Son of Jacob Hans Busk of Leeds, who was grandson of Nicholas du Busc, Marquis de Fresney, ambassador from France to Sweden, who settled in England in 1712, and Rachel Wordsworth of Leeds, of the Wordsworths of Swathe.  He married Martha, daughter and heiress of Richard Rodes of Long Houghton Hall and Bullhouse Hall, Penistone. He had two daughters, Rachel and Marianne. Rachel Busk married Richard Slater Milnes of Fryston Hall (see lots 44 and 190).