Hope Collection of Pictures

The Hope Collection of Pictures, also known as The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, was a distinguished group of eighty-three paintings that were sold together in 1898 by Lord Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope. It included works by more than thirty different artists, a number of them being individuals whose names are renowned within art history.
History.
These paintings were part of a larger art collection that was built up by multiple members of the Hope family. At the time when the Dutch Republic was nearing its end, their collection was brought to England. A number of the Dutch and Flemish paintings were subsequently inherited by Henry Thomas Hope, who would later contribute a total of twelve paintings to the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition. In 1891 the eighty-three paintings were put on display at the South Kensington Museum, before they would be sold seven years later for the sum of £121,550. The payment of this amount was made by the London art dealer Asher Wertheimer.
Works.
Following is a partial listing of the paintings that were in The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools.(Those with a preceding their title were on display at the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition.)