Archibald Hope the Elder 17th Century Balis (oral communication

Balis (oral communication

The influence of De Loutherbourg in terms of landscape and of Reynolds for the figures is apparent from the comparison with the paintings on each side

London and was for a long time attributed to him

was probably painted in the 1820s

thanks to its condition

Archibald Hope the Elder 17th Century Balis (oral communicationThe original canvas is oval and has been made up to a rectangle. Archibald Hope (1664 1743), of the Hopes of Hopetoun, was a Scottish merchant who was born and lived in Rotterdam. His sons set up the Hope Bank in Amsterdam. The art collector and theorist Thomas Hope of Deepdene was his grandson.