Hope Collection of Pictures

Interior of Thomas Hope's Picture Gallery, Duchess Street, London
William Henry Bartlett, 1825–54[5]

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,[lower-alpha 1] 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][lower-alpha 2]

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]

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
	(†) 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

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