ART AUTHORITY DEAD
SURVEYOR OF THE ROYAL PICTURES Brifis/i Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The death has occurred of Sir Lionel Cust, aged 70. He was a -reat authority on the history of art. Sir Lionel Cust was surveyor of the king’s pictures and works of art. and gentleman usher to the King. 1001-27. Horn in London on January 25. 1859, was educated at Eton and. Trinity ( ollegp, Cambridge. He entered the ™ar Office in ISB2, was transferred 10 the British Museum as assistant ln the department of prints and drawings, 1884; director of the National Portrait Gallery, 1595-1909; joint editor and director of the Burlington Magazine.” 1909-19. He Published many works on art, also ® a, |y articles in the Dictionary of Rational Biography and elsewhere. Sir Lionel was the only son of the J®* e Sir Reginald Cust and Lady Elisabeth Bligh, eldest daughter of tlle sth Earl of Darnley. He was parried in 1895 to Sybil, daughter of the 4th Baron Lyttelton.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 9
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163ART AUTHORITY DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 9
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