Hope Collection of Pictures

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. An inventory with insured values of the paintings at his home in England was compiled not long afterwards on 17 December 1795. 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, June 1816, and July 1816.
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. 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.
While substantial, the paintings sold in 1898 were not the full Hope Collection. A residual portion was sold at Christie's in 1917.

Works

Following is a partial listing of the paintings that were in The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools.

Image	Title	Artist	Collection
	A Lady with a Parrot and a Gentleman with a Monkey	Caspar Netscher	Columbus Museum of Art
	Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee	Rembrandt	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	River Landscape Near a Town	unknown Netherlandish artist	Musée Charles de Bruyères
	A Church Interior with Elegant Company Attending a Christening	Dirck van Delen	private
	The Farm	Adriaen van de Velde	Gemäldegalerie
	The Vegetable Seller	Willem van Mieris	Musée Bernard d'Agesci
	Easy Come, Easy Go	Jan Steen	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
	Bathsheba	Willem van Mieris	Snite Museum of Art
	The Onion Seller	Willem van Mieris	Musée Bernard d'Agesci
	View from the Coast of Norway	Jacob van Ruisdael	Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
	Figures with Horses by a Stable	Paulus Potter	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	Italianate Landscape with Cattle	Karel Dujardin	Mauritshuis
	The Robbery	Simon Kick	Gemäldegalerie
	The Church at Maarssen	Jan van der Heyden	National Trust
	Man and a Page Offering Fruit to a Seated Woman, In a Courtyard	Jan van Mieris	private
	Cows and Herdsman by a River	Aelbert Cuyp	Frick Collection
	The Dancing Couple	Jan Steen	National Gallery of Art
	The Old Violinist	Frans van Mieris the Elder	Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Landscape with Tower	Peter Paul Rubens	Gemäldegalerie
	Landscape with Bridge, Cattle, and Figures	Jacob van Ruisdael	Clark Art Institute
	Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape	Paulus Potter	National Gallery
	Woman Drinking with Soldiers	Pieter de Hooch	Louvre
	The Death of Cleopatra	Gerard de Lairesse	Art Gallery of Ontario
	Cottages in a Wood	Meindert Hobbema	National Gallery
	Elegant Couple in an Interior	Eglon van der Neer	private
	Woman Reading a Letter	Gabriël Metsu	National Gallery of Ireland
	Lot and his Daughters	Adriaen van der Werff	Schlossmuseum Gotha
	Swans and Peacocks	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	Jan van der Heyden	Gemäldegalerie
	Two Ladies with a Parrot at a Casement	Philip van Dijk	private
	Still Life with Swan and Game before a Country Estate	Jan Weenix	National Gallery of Art
	A Dutch Three-Master and a Boeier in Stormy Weather	Willem van de Velde the Younger	National Trust
	Doubting Thomas	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	Philips Wouwerman	Mansion House, London
	Roman Market Scene	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	David Teniers the Younger	private
	A Lady and Gentleman in Black	Rembrandt	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	An Italian Landscape	Jan Both	National Gallery of Ireland
	Dutch Shipping in a Heavy Swell with a Small Hoeker	Willem van de Velde the Younger	National Trust
	The Virgin as Intercessor	Anthony van Dyck	National Gallery of Art
	View of the Roman Forum	Jacob van der Ulft	Schloss Collection, looted during World War II
	Officer Writing a Letter, with a Trumpeter	Gerard ter Borch	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	The Christening	Jan Steen	Gemäldegalerie
	The Music Lesson	workshop of Gerard ter Borch	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	The Cottage Dooryard	Adriaen van Ostade	National Gallery of Art
	Landscape with Cattle	Adriaen van de Velde	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	Old Woman Peeling Apples	Nicolaes Maes	Gemäldegalerie
	A Lady at Her Toilet	Gabriël Metsu	Frick Collection