Henry Philip Hope

by Thomas Goff Lupton, after Bouton
mezzotint, 1823
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D656

Sitterback to top

Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839), Banker and gem collector; brother of Thomas Hope of Deepdene. Sitter in 5 portraits.

Artistsback to top

Bouton. Artist associated with 1 portrait.
Thomas Goff Lupton (1791-1873), Engraver. Artist associated with 127 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

Portrait setback to top

Macdonnell Collection

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Mezzotint

Events of 1823back to top

Current affairs

Gaols Act is passed to build new prisons, raise standards in old ones and institute regular inspections. It is prompted by the vigorous campaigning of reformers such as Elizabeth Fry, leader of the Ladies Association for the Improvement of Female Prisoners in Newgate Prison.
Anti-Slavery Committee is founded in London.

Art and science

Architect, Robert Smirke begins construction of the British Museum.
Thomas Wakley founds The Lancet, the first weekly medical journal and important mouthpiece of medical reform.
Charles Babbage begins work on the first calculating machine.
Charles Macintosh invents waterproof fabric.

International

Catholic Association is founded by Daniel O'Connell in Ireland in an attempt to mobilise and politicise the entire Irish Catholic population in a systematic challenge to the ruling Protestant ascendancy.
War breaks out between France and Spain.
English missionary John Smith died in prison having been sentenced to be hanged for failing to take up arms against slaves in Demerara.

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Susan Bland

21 July 2016, 17:06

Henry Philip Hope 1774-1839 was a london banker and known as a specialist Gem and Pearl collector, there is a famous catalogue of his huge collection and he is associated. with the famous Hope Diamond and other gems. Cousin to another Henry Hope and both were of the wealthy anglo -dutch family who had returned to London from Amsterdam. Patron of the arts. An enamel portrait of him by Bone was exhib at RA 1803 acc to archives. He commissioned my own ancestor Charles Muss though I do not know what work he ordered.

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