Henry Philip Hope was a collector of Dutch origin based in London. He was one of the heirs of the bank Hope & Co. without having been a banker himself but rather a famous collector of the arts and mor
Painting by Thomas Goff Lupton After Bouton
Hope & Co. was a Dutch bank that existed for two and a half centuries. The bank was located in Amsterdam until 1795; originally it concentrated on Great Britain. In the second half of the 18th century
Henry Philip Hope
…Henry Philip Hope (8 June 1774, Amsterdam – 5 December 1839, Kent) was a collector of Dutch origin based in London. He was one of the heirs of the bank Hope & Co. without having been a banker himself but rather a famous collector of the arts and more particularly precious gems. He was the son of Jan Hope and…
Offices of Hope & Co. on Keizersgracht in Amsterdam
Portrait of Adrian Hope by Cosmo Alexander (1763)
Henry Hope in 1788, mezzotint by Charles Howard Hodges after a now-lost painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
John Williams Hope (1757–1813), (Richard Cosway, 1796).