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| Auction House | Christie's -- from catalog: Mr. Christie | | Sale Location | [No.125] Pall Mall, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: Henry Hope, Esq. Dec.
from auctioneer's copy: [Same] | | Lugt Number | 7966 | | No. of Painting Lots | 57 | | Notes | Henry W. Hope had been one of the most eminent merchants of his time and the senior member of a prominent firm based in Amsterdam. After the French invaded the Netherlands in 1794, he and his family moved to England, bringing their collection of pictures with them. Upon his death in February, 1811, his residence in Cavendish Square and its picture collection were willed to Mr. John Williams Hope, his niece's husband and his successor in the firm. The present sale took place less than two months after Henry's death and the consigner was presumably John Williams Hope, although Henry Hope's name is the only one found on the title page of the catalogue. Two further sales took place in 1816, the first of which contained a much larger number of pictures from a wider range of schools. The present sale, devoted to some of the more choice works, consisted mainly of Dutch and Flemish pictures, making it one of the more successful sales held during this period. Some of the pictures had been purchased in London, but others had most likely been acquired while Hope was based in Amsterdam. His cousin, Sir Thomas Hope, was a buyer at the sale, as was Alexander Baring (later 1st Baron Ashburton) who bought a total of eight lots. The highest price was £525 paid by Lord Yarmouth on behalf of the Prince of Wales for a Country Fete by Teniers (now in the Royal Collection). Lord Mulgrave paid £267.15 for a Landscape with alarmed Peasants by Claude (now in an English private collection). The sale totals were £2933.4.6. Just four lots were bought in, one of which evidently reappeared in Henry Philip Hope's sale on May 23, 1812 (no.991). The second and larger sale of Henry W. Hope's pictures took place on June 27/29, 1816, and a third more minor portion of his collection was auctioned on July 3/17, 1816. His books were sold by Saunders on Mar.10/15, 1817. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | CL I [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices.
OGA [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with many buyers as well as all prices, indicating which lots were sold and which bought in. The annotator was Geo. Watson who was working from a marked set of catalogues deposited by the auctioneers in the Excise Office.
JPGM I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with many buyers as well as all prices, indicating which lots were sold and which bought in. The catalogue belonged to Wm. Seguier and perhaps before that to his father David.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with all prices and the initial "H" by a few lots, evidently those bought by the dealer Philip Hill, who therefore may have owned the catalogue.
NGL II Annot. in pencil with the names of a few buyers and all prices.
VAL I Annot. in pencil by the dealer Woodin with all prices.
NGD Annot. with all prices in guineas. It is contained in a volume of sale catalogues that evidently belonged to George Meade.
CL II Mutilated in some places. Annot. with most prices in guineas. It does not belong to the auctioneer's set.
NGL I Annot. with most prices. The catalogue is incomplete, lacking pp.9-11.
JPGM II [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Not annot. It belonged to Sir Matthew White Ridley.
FLNY Not annot.
VAL II Not annot. | | Photocopies | MECL (of JPGM II) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - GRI | | | |
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