Hope Collection of Pictures
The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools | |
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The Hope Collection of Pictures, also known as The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, was a distinguished group of eighty-three paintings that were sold together in 1898 by Lord Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope.[1][2] It included works by more than thirty different artists, a number of them being individuals whose names are renowned within the art world.[3]
History
Multiple members of the branch of the Hope family which became established in Amsterdam pursued an interest in acquiring fine paintings.[2] By the later part of the 18th century they owned a large number of works, and 372 of their paintings accompanied Henry Hope when he moved from the Dutch Republic to London in 1794.[6] An inventory with insured values of the paintings at his home in England was compiled not long afterwards on 17 December 1795.[7] He would continue to purchase works,[a] and upon his death a cumulative total of at least 378 paintings that had been in his possession were sold through three Christie’s auctions that were held in April 1811,[9] June 1816, [10] and July 1816.[11][b]
This particular collection was a subset of a group of paintings that came to be owned by Henry Thomas Hope following the deaths of his father Thomas Hope and his uncle Henry Philip Hope.[12][2] Henry Thomas Hope was one of a handful of individuals who were initially contacted regarding making a loan to the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition,[13] and twelve of his paintings would be sent to Manchester.[14] Following his death in 1862, the collection was inherited by his widow, Anne Adèle Hope.[15][2][16] In 1891 the eighty-three painting were put on display at the South Kensington Museum,[17] before they would be sold seven years later by her grandson for the sum of £121,550.[2] The payment of this amount was made by the London art dealer Asher Wertheimer.[2]
Works
Following is a partial listing of the paintings that were in The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools.
(Those with a (†) preceding their title were on display at the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition.)
Image | Title | Artist | Collection |
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(†) A Lady with a Parrot and a Gentleman with a Monkey[18][19][20] | Caspar Netscher | Columbus Museum of Art | |
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee[21][22] | Rembrandt | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | |
(†) River Landscape Near a Town[23][24][25] | unknown Netherlandish artist | Musée Charles de Bruyères (in Remiremont) | |
A Church Interior with Elegant Company Attending a Christening[26][27] | Dirck van Delen | private | |
The Farm[28][29] | Adriaen van de Velde | Gemäldegalerie | |
The Vegetable Seller[30][31] | Willem van Mieris | Musée Bernard d'Agesci (in Niort) | |
(†) Easy Come, Easy Go[32][33][34] | Jan Steen | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | |
Bathsheba[35][36] | Willem van Mieris | Snite Museum of Art | |
The Onion Seller[37][38] | Willem van Mieris | Musée Bernard d'Agesci (in Niort) | |
View from the Coast of Norway[39][40] | Jacob van Ruisdael | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum | |
(†) Figures with Horses by a Stable[41][42][43] | Paulus Potter | Philadelphia Museum of Art | |
Italianate Landscape with Cattle[44][45] | Karel Dujardin | Mauritshuis | |
(†) The Robbery[46][47][48] | Simon Kick | Gemäldegalerie | |
The Church at Maarssen[49][50] | Jan van der Heyden | National Trust (at Polesden Lacey) | |
Man and a Page Offering Fruit to a Seated Woman, In a Courtyard[51][52] | Jan van Mieris | private | |
Cows and Herdsman by a River[53][54] | Aelbert Cuyp | The Frick Collection | |
The Dancing Couple[55][56] | Jan Steen | National Gallery of Art | |
(†) The Old Violinist[57][58][59] | Frans van Mieris the Elder | Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
Landscape with Tower[60][61] | Peter Paul Rubens | Gemäldegalerie | |
Landscape with Bridge, Cattle, and Figures[62][63] | Jacob van Ruisdael | Clark Art Institute | |
(†) Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape[64][65][66] | Paulus Potter | The National Gallery | |
Woman Drinking with Soldiers (French: La Buveuse)[67][68] |
Pieter de Hooch | Musée du Louvre | |
The Death of Cleopatra[69][70] | Gerard de Lairesse | Art Gallery of Ontario | |
Cottages in a Wood[71][72] | Meindert Hobbema | The National Gallery | |
(†) Elegant Couple in an Interior[73][74][75] | Eglon van der Neer | private | |
Woman Reading a Letter[76][77] | Gabriël Metsu | National Gallery of Ireland | |
Lot and his Daughters[78][79] | Adriaen van der Werff | Schlossmuseum Gotha (within Friedenstein Castle) | |
Swans and Peacocks[80][81] | Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes | |
Woman Asleep[82][83] | Gerrit Dou | Hohenbuchau Collection, on permanent loan to Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections | |
Street in Front of the Haarlem Gate in Amsterdam[84][85] | Jan van der Heyden | Gemäldegalerie | |
Two Ladies with a Parrot at a Casement[86][87] | Philip van Dijk | private | |
Still Life with Swan and Game before a Country Estate[88][89] | Jan Weenix | National Gallery of Art | |
A Dutch Three-Master and a Boeier in Stormy Weather[90][91] | Willem van de Velde the Younger | National Trust (at Buckland Abbey) | |
Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of St. Thomas)[92][93] | Adriaen van der Werff | Milwaukee Art Museum | |
The Glass of Wine[94][95] | Johannes Vermeer | Gemäldegalerie | |
Three Soldiers Making Merry[96][97] | Gerard ter Borch | private | |
Landscape with kermis (or The Rustic Wedding)[98][99] |
Philips Wouwerman | Mansion House, London | |
Roman Market Scene[100][101] | Johannes Lingelbach | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe | |
Man Writing a Letter[102][103] | Gabriël Metsu | National Gallery of Ireland | |
A Guardroom Scene with Tric-Trac Players in the Foreground[104][105] | David Teniers the Younger | private | |
(†) A Lady and Gentleman in Black[106][107][108] | Rembrandt | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | |
An Italian Landscape[109][110] | Jan Both | National Gallery of Ireland | |
Dutch Shipping in a Heavy Swell with a Small Hoeker[111][112] | Willem van de Velde the Younger | National Trust (at Buckland Abbey) | |
The Virgin as Intercessor[113][114] | Anthony van Dyck | National Gallery of Art | |
View of the Roman Forum[115][116] | Jacob van der Ulft | Schloss Collection, looted during World War II | |
Officer Writing a Letter, with a Trumpeter[117][118] | Gerard ter Borch | Philadelphia Museum of Art | |
The Christening[119][120] | Jan Steen | Gemäldegalerie | |
The Music Lesson[121][122] | workshop of Gerard ter Borch |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | |
(†) The Cottage Dooryard[123][124][125] | Adriaen van Ostade | National Gallery of Art | |
Landscape with Cattle[126][127] | Adriaen van de Velde | Philadelphia Museum of Art | |
Old Woman Peeling Apples[128][129] | Nicolaes Maes | Gemäldegalerie | |
A Lady at Her Toilet[130][131] | Gabriël Metsu | The Frick Collection |
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- ^ "Italianate Landscape with Cattle". Mauritshuis. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
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- ^ "Landschap met overval op reizigers". RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XXVI and ill.
- ^ "The Old Violinist". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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- ^ "La Buveuse". Musée du Louvre. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XXXV and ill.
- ^ "The Death of Cleopatra". AGO Collections - eMuseum. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XXXVI and ill.
- ^ "Cottages in a Wood". The National Gallery. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XXXVII and ill.
- ^ "Elegant company in a distinguished interior". RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XXXVIII and ill.
- ^ Waiboer (2017), p. 246
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XXXIX and ill.
- ^ "Lot und seine Töchter". Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XL and ill.
- ^ "Swans and peacocks". Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XLI and ill.
- ^ Waiboer (2017), p. 242
- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. XLII and ill.
- ^ "Straße vor dem Haarlemer Tor in Amsterdam". Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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- ^ "A Dutch Three-Master and a Boeier in Stormy Weather". National Trust Collections. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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- ^ "Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of St. Thomas)". Milwaukee Art Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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- ^ Wertheimer (1898), no. LVI and ill.
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Notes
- ^ An example of a painting that was purchased by Henry Hope after he had moved to London is Christ and the Adulterous Woman by Peter Paul Rubens.[8]
- ^ According to the Sales Contents data on the Getty Provenance Index® website as of July 2022, these three auctions involved a cumulative total of 395 paintings, of which 378 of the transactions are recorded as Sold, 9 as Bought In, and 2 each as Passed, Withdrawn, Unknown, and Sold [?].