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AT-00009392Portrait of Hugh Hope
About the Artwork
Henry Raeburn created this likeness of fellow Edinburgh native Hugh Hope before Hope departed for India, where he worked as a civil servant for the renowned East India Company (a British joint-stock company founded in 1600 to trade in the Indian Ocean). This painting hung in the drawing room of Hope’s estate, Pinkie House in Scotland, until 1928. Although greatly influenced by his English predecessor Joshua Reynolds, Raeburn worked in a looser style, more like the work of his younger contemporary Thomas Lawrence. This portrait is painted directly on the canvas without any preliminary drawing, giving it an informal, spontaneous air.
Provenance
the sitter (1782-1822) by inheritance to Sir Alexander Hope, Pinkie House, Scotland (sale: Sotheby's, London, 16 May, 1928, Lot B) I. D. Levy (1930) (Knoedler) 1945: Jane Taft Ingalls [1874-1962], Cleveland, OH 1945-1985: David S. Ingalls, Sr. [1899-1985], Cleveland, OH Francis W. Ingalls 1991-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993). British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756–1823)
- Date
- c. 1810
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 94.5 x 82 x 8 cm (37 3/16 x 32 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 75 x 61 cm (29 1/2 x 24 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift in honor of Jane Taft Ingalls on the occasion of the Museum's Seventy-fifth Anniversary
- Accession no.
- 1991.133
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