Hugh Hope (1782–1822) was a

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for the

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and the third son of Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet Hope of Craighall. A portrait of Hugh Hope, painted by

Sir Henry Raeburn Sir Henry Raeburn (; 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland. Biography Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a for ...

(1756–1823), currently hangs in

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Painting by Raeburn

Commissioned by the subject's family, Sir Henry Raeburn painted his portrait of Hugh Hope around 1810. An 1889 Scottish Art Review described the painting as follows: :''To our left of the portrait of Sir Thomas Hope hangs another admirable family picture, which indeed may rank as the most accomplished piece of art that Pinkie contains. This is a bust portrait of Hugh Hope (b. 1782, d. 1822), of the East India Company's Service, second son of the ninth Baronet, by his second wife. It is the work of Raeburn, and a masterly example of that painter, showing - in every touch that expresses the fair hair, the blue eyes, the full, fresh-coloured face and in the details of the crisp white ruffles, the dark brown coat, the yellow vest - that easy power of swift, unlaboured, expressive brush-work, for which Sir Henry is unrivalled among Scottish painters.'' The painting hung for over a hundred years at

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, the Hope family estate near

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, until 1928 when it was included in a

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London art auction. The painting sold at that time for £4,100 to Messrs. Knaedler. The painting was displayed at the

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in 1930 as part of an exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century English artists. The painting is currently part of the British Painting and Decorative Art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, a gift of Jane Taft Ingalls on the occasion of the Museum's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary in 1995.

About the subject

Hugh Hope was the second son of Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet Hope of Craighall and his second wife, Elizabeth Patoun, the daughter of John Patoun, Esq. of

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. Sir Archibald purchased the estate of Pinkie House in 1778 from the Marquis of Tweeddale and established it as the seat of Hope baronetcy from its historic location of Craighall in

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. In 1779 Hope's parents married after Sir Archibald's first wife died. The couple had three sons and a daughter, including Hugh Hope born in on 12 October 1782. The family also included two sons and four daughters from Sir Archibald's first marriage. After attending a foreign university, in 1803 Hugh Hope went to India as a civil servant with the East India Company. In 1819 Hugh Hope married Isabella Gray MacKay, the daughter of Æneas Mackay, Esq. of Scotston,

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. The couple were parents of one daughter, Helen Hope, and one son, Archibald Hugh Hope, later a General in the

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. Hugh Hope died of a fever on 7 October 1822 in

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. At the time of his death, he was the Collector of Government Customs at Mirzapur.

References

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Scottish art Scottish paintings Paintings by Henry Raeburn Portraits of men British East India Company civil servants Oil on canvas paintings 1810 paintings