Thomas Hope (August 30, 1769 - February 3, 1830/1831) was a Dutch and British merchants banker, writer, philosopher and art collector, best known for his novel Anastasius, which many experts regard as rivals of Lord Byron's writings. His children included Henry Thomas Hope and Alexander Beresford Hope.
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Jan Hope's eldest son, Thomas is a descendant of an old Scottish family branch which for generations was a merchant banker known as Amsterdam Hope, or Hope & Co. He inherits from his mother a love of art, whose efforts his father and grandfather made possible by gaining enormous wealth. His father spent his last years transforming his summer home in Groenendaal Park in Heemstede into a large sculpture garden opened to the public. After he fled to London with his brothers to avoid the French occupation of the Netherlands from 1795-1810, he never returned.
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Grand Tour
In 1784, when young Thomas was fifteen years old, his father died unexpectedly in The Hague only after buying Bosbeek in Groenendaal Park, the home that would accommodate his large art collection. He shares his art collection as part of Hope & amp; Co Partnership with his cousin, Henry Hope. This cousin has just finished her job at Villa Welgelegen further down the road. Missing his father and grandfather, and preferring his mother and brother's company to his uncle in Amsterdam, Thomas did not go into the family business. By contrast, at the age of eighteen, he began to devote more time to studying all the arts, especially the architecture of classical civilizations, during a series of tours to other countries. During his big tour of Europe, Asia and Africa, Hope was interested in himself especially in architecture and sculpture, making many collections of interesting artefacts (eg Hope Dionysus).
Move to London
Thomas Hope returned to The Hague when his mother died in 1794. That same year, the three Hope brothers, together with their cousin Henry Hope, who was the executor of their mother's will, fled to London before the French revolutionary troops who came marching in Amsterdam. In haste to remove their art collection to a safe place in London, Hope leaves their home, summer home and garden filled with wall hangings, furniture, and heavy sculptures. Later, after the French occupation, Thomas's brother Adrian Elias will return to live in Groenendaal Park full time and expand the garden. Henry's cousin always wished to return to his home, Villa Welgelegen, but he died in 1811 before King Willem restored Dutch sovereignty in 1814.
Career as an interior decorator
The Hopes established a residence in London on Duchess Street, Cavendish Square. Experienced from his extensive travels, Thomas Hope enjoys a cosmopolitan atmosphere in London, while his younger siblings lose their homes in the Netherlands. She decorated the house in a very elaborate style, from the pictures she made herself with each room in a different style influenced by the countries she had visited. In essence, a collection of arts of Hope & amp; Co, his parents and Henry Hope gave him the opportunity to further examine the various arts he had learned during his journey and he began writing books on decoration and furniture, the first of its kind. In the same way he did with Villa Welgelegen, Henry Hope opened the house as a semi-public museum. The house museum includes three vase galleries filled with Southern Italian vases purchased by Hopes from Sir William Hamilton's second vase collection.
In this eclectic, eclectic rich man's house, Henry Philip's younger brother is watching a collection of gems (acquiring Hope Diamond and Hope Pearl), while Henry's cousin is busy with the banking business and Louisiana Purchase, along with Barings. Thomas Hope is not settled in London. He took the grand tour where he left off, and in 1795 he began his extensive tour of the Ottoman Empire which included visits to Turkey, Rhodes, Egypt, Syria and Arabia. He lived for about a year in Istanbul/Constantinople where he produced about 350 images depicting the people and places he witnessed in the Ottoman Empire, a collection that can now be found at Benaki Museum, Athens. During this journey, he was given freedom by Hope & amp; Co. company to collect many paintings, sculptures, antiques and books, some of which were destined to be shown publicly in Amsterdam at a branch office in Keizersgracht 444, and some were destined for his home in London on Duchess Road in 1804.
Get married and move to Deepdene
After his marriage to Louisa de la Poer Beresford in 1806, Hope obtained a state seat in Deepdene, near Dorking in Surrey. Here, surrounded by his vast collection of paintings, sculptures and antiques, Deepdene is a popular place for men of letters and fashion people. Among the luxuries suggested by its delicious taste, and reserved for its guests, is a miniature library in several languages ​​in each bedroom. He also often works for artists, sculptors and craftsmen. Bertel Thorvaldsen, the Danish sculptor, is indebted to him for his initial recognition of his talent, and he is also a patron for Francis Legatt Chantrey and John Flaxman; it is his command that the latter describes the writings of Dante Alighieri.
He is the father of Henry Thomas Hope, a supporter of art and politicians and Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, author and politician.
Write
Hope desires to advance public awareness of painting and historical design and to influence design in large houses at Regency London. In pursuit of his scientific projects, he began sketching furniture, interiors and space costumes, and publishing books with accompanying scientific texts.
In 1807 Thomas Hope published his furniture sketch, in a folio volume, entitled Household Furnishings and Interior Decorations, which had a profound effect and brought changes in interior finishes and decorations. Furniture design hopes are in a pseudo-classical way commonly called "the United Kingdom". It is sometimes wasteful, and often heavy, but much more restrained than the wild flight and then of the Thomas Sheraton in this style.
In 1809 he published Ancient Costumes, and in 1812 Modern Costume Design , a work featuring a large number of antique studies. Essay of Architectural History, featuring illustrations based on images Early expectations, published posthumously by his family in 1835. Thus, Hope became famous among London's nobility as a 'costume and furniture man'. The nickname is regarded as a compliment by his enthusiastic supporters, but for his critics, including Lord Byron, it is a term of derision. Anastasius
Longing for a different kind of literary recognition as he approached fifty, Hope began working on a novel with the enthusiastic encouragement of some close friends. The result was completed in 1819, Anastasius , a work of academic interest, raw excitement and descriptive power that the first edition was released by the famous London publisher, John Murray, into a sensation last night. The second edition was sold out in twenty-four hours. Foreign translations in French, German, and Flemish were soon followed.
The novel lifted the curtain of ignorance about the East without simply retelling Hope's own journey. The eponymous-hero narrator Anastasius is fearless, curious, cunning, cruel, brave and, above all, sexy. As a newly converted Muslim mercenary, Selim, his journey threw him among his friends, lovers and enemies.
Descriptions of hope reveal the lives of the inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire and provide a remarkable glimpse of the wars that took place among Turks, Russians, and Wahhabis. It also describes many details of previously unknown Islamic culture: music, language, cuisine, religion, law and literature.
Because of its simplicity, Hope initially chose not to declare the author Anastasius in the first edition. Ironically, given the mild reputation of Hope, the valiant authorship of Anastasius was initially mistakenly associated with Lord Byron, who, according to legend, confessed to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, that he cried sadly when reading it. "To be a writer of Anastasius, I will give you two poems that bring me the greatest glory." These events prompted Hope to reveal her identity as a writer in subsequent editions, adding Anastasius's journey map and refining the text, although her authorship was initially greeted with distrust by some journals.
Immediately following Hope's death in 1831, Louisa's widow remarried with her cousin William Carr Beresford, the first Viscount Beresford. His family then embraced conservative values, causing them to legitimize the destruction of the house of legendary London writers, dissolving his fabled art collection, and distancing himself from his Oriental masterpiece. No large collection of Hope's personal papers survived the family's indifference and Anastasius, his magnum opus, became a victim of the sacred morality of Victorian times.
Nevertheless, it affected the works of William Thackeray, Mark Twain and Herman Melville. Recently, the famous Orientalist, Robert Irwin, wrote, "this book, one of the most important books of the nineteenth century, should be more widely read."
In addition to his other accomplishments, Hope is the author of an important posthumously published philosophical work, The Origin and Prospect of Man (1831), whose speculation deviates widely from the Victorian social and religious views. This book, which has been cited by philosopher Roger Scruton, is a very eclectic work and takes a global view of the challenges facing mankind.
In the news of his death was published in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 476, Saturday, February 12, 1831, reads, "We recall a writer's opinion in the Edinburgh Review, immediately after the publication of Anastasius." With a degree of pleasure and discernment peculiar to northern criticism, he asked, 'Where is Tuan Hope hides all his eloquence and poetry up to this hour? How is it that he, suddenly, explodes into a description that will not humiliate Tacitus's pen, and shows the depth of imaginary feelings and powers that Lord Byron can not excel? We do not shrink from one syllable this speech. '"
Still often known among literary circles as "Anastasius's Hope," the combined artistic legacy of Thomas Hope is still of universal importance and interest.
Death and Legacy - Hope Springs Eternal: The Deepdene Trail
In later years, Hope solidified his position in society even though he never got a knighthood. At the time of his death in 1831, his contribution to art and architecture has been widely recognized.
Sadly the two Harapan homes that had been made were gone, the Duchess Road was destroyed by his son in 1851 and Deepdene in 1969. The only complete complete structure that was built by Hope was the Deepdene tomb. Built in 1818, the structure is the first recorded work in Deepdene and is the final resting place. Permanently sealed in 1957 and buried in 1960 the structure has been forgotten until now. The Mausolea and Trust Monument have worked with the Mole Valley District Council to rescue the structure and run a campaign to explore and improve it.
Portrait
In the artistic irony of his Oriental heritage, Thomas Hope, the man who reveals the secrets of the Ottoman world, was recently described improperly by author Philip Mansel as portrayed in his portrait as wearing the clothes of a "low-ranking Greek sailor."
However, because of a study conducted in 2007, this portrait of hope in 1798, done by William Beechey, can now be seen with a new appreciation. As evidenced by the famous Islamic scholar, Professor John Rodenbeck, the portrait of Beechey describes Hope dressed as a Turkish nobleman, not a Greek sailor. This discovery came about when Professor Rodenbeck carefully examined, then translated, the Arabic embroidered on the original vest which is owned by Hope, which is also worn by the author in Beechey's portrait. The vests and portraits, both of which are owned by the National Portrait Gallery, reveal that Hope chose to portray herself as a wealthy Muslim Turk who stood in front of the most sacred Islamic place in Constantinople, the Abu Ayyub mosque in the EyÃÆ'¼p Sultan.
References
- This article incorporates text from publications now in the public domain: Ã, Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hope, Thomas". EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica (issue 11). Cambridge University Press.
- Beechey Portrait - Visual Study "Anastasius" by Professor John Rodenbeck
- Thomas Hope - Triumph, Tragedy, The Outer World by Jerry Nolan
- Anastasius Political Review by Professor Ludmilla Kostova
- Philosophical Excursus Hope by Roger Scruton
- Anastasius - Towards Background and Meaning by Professor John Rodenbeck
- SÃÆ'¡ndor Baumgarten - Hope Champion forgotten by Jerry Nolan
External links
- Deepdene Path
- The inclusion of Deepdene from The DiCamillo Companion to UK & amp; Irish Country House
- Thomas Hope: Designer District - Exhibition 2008 at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Thomas Hope Portrait (National Portrait Gallery, London)
- Anastasius Vol. 1 Anastasius Vol. 2 Anastasius Vol. 3 in the Internet Archive.
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