Hugh Hope

Hugh Hope (1782–1822) was a civil servant for the East India Company and the third son of Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet Hope of Craighall. A portrait of Hugh Hope, painted by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), currently hangs in The Cleveland Museum of Art. 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.