Portrait of Hugh Hope
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 75 × 61 cm · framed: 94.5 × 82 × 8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift in honor of Jane Taft Ingalls on the occasion of the Museum's Seventy-fifth Anniversary
Accession Number
1991.133
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Henry Raeburn created this likeness of fellow Edinburgh native Hugh Hope before Hope departed for India, where he worked as a civil servant for the renowned East India Company (a British joint-stock company founded in 1600 to trade in the Indian Ocean). This painting hung in the drawing room of Hope’s estate, Pinkie House in Scotland, until 1928. Although greatly influenced by his English predecessor Joshua Reynolds, Raeburn worked in a looser style, more like the work of his younger contemporar...