Hope Collection of Pictures explained

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. It included works by more than thirty different artists, a number of them being individuals whose names are renowned within the art world.

History

Multiple members of the branch of the Hope family which became established in Amsterdam pursued an interest in acquiring fine paintings. 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.^[1] An inventory with insured values of the paintings at his home in England was compiled not long afterwards on 17 December 1795.^[2] He would continue to purchase works, 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,^[3] June 1816, ^[4] and July 1816.^[5]

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. 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, and twelve of his paintings would be sent to Manchester. Following his death in 1862, the collection was inherited by his widow, Anne Adèle Hope.^[6] In 1891 the eighty-three painting were put on display at the South Kensington Museum, before they would be sold seven years later by her grandson for the sum of £121,550. The payment of this amount was made by the London art dealer Asher Wertheimer.

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.)

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Title	Artist	Collection
	A Lady with a Parrot and a Gentleman with a Monkey^[7]	Caspar Netscher	Columbus Museum of Art
	Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee^[8]	Rembrandt	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	River Landscape Near a Town^[9]	unknown Netherlandish artist	Musée Charles de Bruyères (in Remiremont)
	A Church Interior with Elegant Company Attending a Christening^[10]	Dirck van Delen	private
	The Farm^[11]	Adriaen van de Velde	Gemäldegalerie
	The Vegetable Seller^[12]	Willem van Mieris	Musée Bernard d'Agesci (in Niort)
	Easy Come, Easy Go^[13]	Jan Steen	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
	Bathsheba^[14]	Willem van Mieris	Snite Museum of Art
	The Onion Seller^[15]	Willem van Mieris	Musée Bernard d'Agesci (in Niort)
	View from the Coast of Norway^[16]	Jacob van Ruisdael	Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
	Figures with Horses by a Stable^[17]	Paulus Potter	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	Italianate Landscape with Cattle^[18]	Karel Dujardin	Mauritshuis
	The Robbery^[19]	Simon Kick	Gemäldegalerie
	The Church at Maarssen^[20]	Jan van der Heyden	National Trust (at Polesden Lacey)
	Man and a Page Offering Fruit to a Seated Woman, In a Courtyard^[21]	Jan van Mieris	private
	Cows and Herdsman by a River	Aelbert Cuyp	The Frick Collection
	The Dancing Couple^[22]	Jan Steen	National Gallery of Art
	The Old Violinist^[23]	Frans van Mieris the Elder	Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Landscape with Tower^[24]	Peter Paul Rubens	Gemäldegalerie
	Landscape with Bridge, Cattle, and Figures^[25]	Jacob van Ruisdael	Clark Art Institute
	Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape^[26]	Paulus Potter	The National Gallery
	Woman Drinking with Soldiers (French: La Buveuse)^[27]	Pieter de Hooch	Musée du Louvre
	The Death of Cleopatra^[28]	Gerard de Lairesse	Art Gallery of Ontario
	Cottages in a Wood^[29]	Meindert Hobbema	The National Gallery
	Elegant Couple in an Interior^[30]	Eglon van der Neer	private
	Woman Reading a Letter	Gabriël Metsu	National Gallery of Ireland
	Lot and his Daughters^[31]	Adriaen van der Werff	Schlossmuseum Gotha (within Friedenstein Castle)
	Swans and Peacocks^[32]	Melchior d'Hondecoeter	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
	Woman Asleep	Gerrit Dou	Hohenbuchau Collection, on permanent loan to Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections
	Street in Front of the Haarlem Gate in Amsterdam^[33]	Jan van der Heyden	Gemäldegalerie
	Two Ladies with a Parrot at a Casement^[34]	Philip van Dijk	private
	Still Life with Swan and Game before a Country Estate^[35]	Jan Weenix	National Gallery of Art
	A Dutch Three-Master and a Boeier in Stormy Weather^[36]	Willem van de Velde the Younger	National Trust (at Buckland Abbey)
	Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of St. Thomas)^[37]	Adriaen van der Werff	Milwaukee Art Museum
	The Glass of Wine	Johannes Vermeer	Gemäldegalerie
	Three Soldiers Making Merry	Gerard ter Borch	private
	Landscape with kermis (or The Rustic Wedding)	Philips Wouwerman	Mansion House, London
	Roman Market Scene^[38]	Johannes Lingelbach	Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
	Man Writing a Letter	Gabriël Metsu	National Gallery of Ireland
	A Guardroom Scene with Tric-Trac Players in the Foreground^[39]	David Teniers the Younger	private
	A Lady and Gentleman in Black^[40]	Rembrandt	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	An Italian Landscape^[41]	Jan Both	National Gallery of Ireland
	Dutch Shipping in a Heavy Swell with a Small Hoeker^[42]	Willem van de Velde the Younger	National Trust (at Buckland Abbey)
	The Virgin as Intercessor^[43]	Anthony van Dyck	National Gallery of Art
	View of the Roman Forum^[44]	Jacob van der Ulft	Schloss Collection, looted during World War II
	Officer Writing a Letter, with a Trumpeter^[45]	Gerard ter Borch	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	The Christening^[46]	Jan Steen	Gemäldegalerie
	The Music Lesson^[47]	workshop of Gerard ter Borch	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	The Cottage Dooryard^[48]	Adriaen van Ostade	National Gallery of Art
	Landscape with Cattle^[49]	Adriaen van de Velde	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	Old Woman Peeling Apples^[50]	Nicolaes Maes	Gemäldegalerie
	A Lady at Her Toilet	Gabriël Metsu	The Frick Collection

Sources

• Book: Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition. Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom. 1857. Bradbury and Evans. London.
• Book: South Kensington Museum. Catalogue of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools. 1869. George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode. London.
• Book: South Kensington Museum. A Catalogue of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools. 1891. Eyre and Spottiswoode. London.
• Book: Wertheimer. Asher. The Hope Collection of Pictures. 1898. Chiswick Press. London.
• Book: Wheelock, Arthur K. Jr.. Gerard Ter Borch. 2004. National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.. 0-89468-317-9.
• Book: Vander Auwera, Joost. Rubens: A Genius at Work. 2007. Lannoo. Tielt. 978-90-209-7242-9.
• Book: Liedtke, Walter. Vermeer: The Complete Paintings. 2008. Abrams. New York, NY. 978-1-4197-0308-9.
• Book: Pergam, Elizabeth A.. The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public. 2011. Routledge. London and New York, NY. 978-1-4094-1830-6.
• Book: Hall. Michael. Gifford. Clare. The Harold Samuel Collection: A Guide to the Dutch and Flemish Pictures at the Mansion House. 2012. Paul Holberton publishing. London. 978-1-907372-41-4.
• Book: The Frick Collection. Handbook of Paintings. 2016. Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.. New York, NY. 978-1-85759-328-0.
• Book: Waiboer. Adriaan E.. Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting. 2017. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 978-0-300-22293-7.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Henry Hope. RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. 25 July 2022.
2. Web site: Inv.nr. 2895 Catalogus van schilderijen in huizen van Henry Hope in Harley Street in Londen. Met de getaxeerde en verzekerde waarden, 1795. Stadsarchief Amsterdam. 25 July 2022.
3. Web site: Sale Catalog Br-869/Lugt Number 7966. Getty Provenance Index®. J. Paul Getty Trust. 25 July 2022.
4. Web site: Sale Catalog Br-1413/Lugt Number 8932. Getty Provenance Index®. J. Paul Getty Trust. 25 July 2022.
5. Web site: Sale Catalog Br-1418/Lugt Number 8937. Getty Provenance Index®. J. Paul Getty Trust. 25 July 2022.
6. Web site: Triptych Panel with Saint Catherine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 25 July 2022.
7. Web site: A Lady with a Parrot and a Gentleman with a Monkey. Columbus Museum of Art. 25 July 2022.
8. Web site: Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 18 November 2020.
9. Web site: Weids rivierlandschap. RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. 31 October 2022.
10. Web site: Sale 10389, Lot 38. Christie’s. 18 November 2020.
11. Web site: Die Farm. Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. 18 November 2020.
12. Web site: Le vendeur de légumes. Alienor.org. 18 November 2020.
13. Web site: Easy come, easy go. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. 18 November 2020.
14. Web site: David and Bathsheba. RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. 3 December 2020.
15. Web site: Vendeur d'oignons. Alienor.org. 18 November 2020.
16. Web site: View from the Coast of Norway or A Stormy Sea Near the Coast. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 29 January 2021.
17. Web site: Figures with Horses by a Stable. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 18 November 2020.
18. Web site: Italianate Landscape with Cattle. Mauritshuis. 25 July 2022.
19. Web site: Landschap met overval op reizigers. RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. 18 November 2020.
20. Web site: The Church at Maarssen. National Trust Collections. 18 November 2020.
21. Web site: Sale N10309, Lot 181. Sotheby's. 18 November 2020.
22. Web site: The Dancing Couple. National Gallery of Art. 18 November 2020.
23. Web site: The Old Violinist. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 9 December 2020.
24. Web site: Landschaft mit Turm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 18 November 2020.
25. Web site: Landscape with Bridge, Cattle, and Figures. The Clark Art Institute. 18 November 2020.
26. Web site: Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape. The National Gallery. 18 November 2020.
27. Web site: La Buveuse . Musée du Louvre. 25 July 2022.
28. Web site: The Death of Cleopatra. AGO Collections - eMuseum. 18 November 2020.
29. Web site: Cottages in a Wood. The National Gallery. 18 November 2020.
30. Web site: Elegant company in a distinguished interior. RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. 18 November 2020.
31. Web site: Lot und seine Töchter. Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha. 18 November 2020.
32. Web site: Swans and peacocks. Wikimedia Commons. 18 November 2020.
33. Web site: Straße vor dem Haarlemer Tor in Amsterdam. Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. 18 November 2020.
34. Web site: Sale 12975, Lot 168. Christie’s. 18 November 2020.
35. Web site: Still Life with Swan and Game before a Country Estate. National Gallery of Art. 18 November 2020.
36. Web site: A Dutch Three-Master and a Boeier in Stormy Weather. National Trust Collections. 18 November 2020.
37. Web site: Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of St. Thomas). Milwaukee Art Museum. 18 November 2020.
38. Web site: Römische Marktszene. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. 18 November 2020.
39. Web site: Sale L11036, Lot 16. Sotheby's. 18 November 2020.
40. Web site: A Lady and Gentleman in Black. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 18 November 2020.
41. Web site: An Italian Landscape. National Gallery of Ireland. 18 November 2020.
42. Web site: Dutch Shipping in a Heavy Swell with a Small Hoeker. National Trust Collections. 18 November 2020.
43. Web site: The Virgin as Intercessor. National Gallery of Art. 18 November 2020.
44. Web site: Vue du forum romain. France Diplomatie. 18 November 2020.
45. Web site: Officer Writing a Letter, with a Trumpeter. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 18 November 2020.
46. Web site: "So de Oude songen, so pypen de Jongen" / Wie die Alten singen, so pfeifen die Jungen. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 18 November 2020.
47. Web site: The Music Lesson. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 18 November 2020.
48. Web site: The Cottage Dooryard. National Gallery of Art. 18 November 2020.
49. Web site: Landscape with Cattle. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 18 November 2020.
50. Web site: Alte Frau beim Apfelschälen. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 18 November 2020.