The Loss of a Merchantman

Francis Hustwick was a local portrait and scenic painter, who lived for some time in High Street, where several of Hull's museums are situated today. He began his artistic career as a coach and heraldic painter for Robert Hustwick, Coachmaker, who was presumably his father. At the age of twemty-nine he began his own business as a house, sign, ship and furniture painter at Saville Street. Hustwick is known to have executed a portrait of James Acland and some of the mural paintings in St. Charles' Church. A double portrait of Hustwick and James Hay, painted by each other just before Hustwick's death, was exhibited at the Ferens Art Gallery's Old Hull Artists exhibition in 1939.