Regency Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Hope (1770-1831), Collector, virtuoso and writer
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Collector and virtuoso influential in the development of the neo-classic in England, described by Byron as 'House-furnisher withal' and by Sydney Smith as 'the man of chairs and tables'.
'... a little ill-looking man about thirty, with a sort of effeminate face and manner …' (Lord Glenbervie's Diary, 23 July 1801).
'... a little ill-looking man about thirty, with a sort of effeminate face and manner …' (Lord Glenbervie's Diary, 23 July 1801).
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Neale 1826Neale, Views of Seats, IX, 1826 for Deepdene.
Watkin 1968
David Watkin, Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classic Idea, 1968.
Westmacott 1824
C. M. Westmacott, British Galleries of Painting and Sculpture, 1824, part I (for Duchess Street).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.