Focus on this artwork and explain the 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 Pinkie House, the Hope family estate near Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, until 1928 when it was included in a Sotheby's London art auction.  The painting sold at that time for £4,100 to Messrs. Knaedler.  The painting was displayed at the Fogg Museum 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.
Sir Henry Raeburn The Cleveland Museum of Art India Cleveland Museum of Art Fogg Museum East India Company East Lothian Musselburgh Pinkie House Henry Raeburn Sotheby's Scotland