Henry Hope in 1788

Henry Hope (1735 - 1811) was an Amsterdam merchant banker born in Boston, New England. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (565x760, 58 KB) Henry Hope, Esq. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (565x760, 58 KB) Henry Hope, Esq. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 741,329 (1 August 2006) Agglomeration - up to 2. ... In banking, a merchant bank is a traditional term for an Investment Bank. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ...

Early years

His father Henry was a Rotterdam merchant of Scottish lineage who had left for the "new world" after experiencing financial difficulties in the bubble of 1720 in Rotterdam. Henry Hope the elder settled near Boston and became a freemason and merchant. His sent his son Henry to school in London where he became apprenticed for 6 years to a well-known banker, Gurnell, Hoare, & Harman. In 1762 he came to the Netherlands with his only sister Harriet when she married the son of Rotterdam merchant John Goddard, a family business associate. Henry went to work for his uncles Thomas and Adrian together with his cousin John (or Jan) Hope (father of Thomas Hope), in the family business in Amsterdam. By that time the Hope brothers were established as leading merchants in the Netherlands, but when the younger Hopes joined the Amsterdam branch, the name was changed to Hope & Co.. In the 18th century Amsterdam as the largest port of Europe was the center of commerce and merchant banking in Europe, and Hope & Co. played a major part in the finances of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Rotterdam Location Coat of arms The coat of arms reads Sterker door Strijd, i. ... Merchants function as professionals who deal with trade, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves, in order to produce profit. ... Currier & Ives print on economic bubbles, 1875. ... // Events January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. ... Rotterdam Location Coat of arms The coat of arms reads Sterker door Strijd, i. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... American Square & Compasses Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. ... Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort, the worlds most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Rotterdam Location Coat of arms The coat of arms reads Sterker door Strijd, i. ... Thomas Hope (c. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 741,329 (1 August 2006) Agglomeration - up to 2. ... Picture of Rotterdam banker Archibald Hope in 1720 Hope & Co. ... Dutch colonial possessions, with the Dutch East India Company possessions marked in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the mid-Atlantic. ... VOC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: A historic trade organization (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie); see Dutch East India Company A group of chemical compounds; see Volatile Organic Compounds Vehicle operating costs Voice of the customer Creative Voice file, a proprietary audio format developed by Creative...

Welgelegen

Today Henry is best known for building his summer villa Welgelegen. He was a particularly good networker and had many influential friendships among important figures of the day, thanks to his good command of English, French, and Dutch. He acquired a large art collection and built villa Welgelegen in Haarlem to house it on the grounds of a former summer home he had acquired in 1769. Building this summer palace, a five year project, became a summer attraction in its own right, rivaling the neighboring park Groenendaal set up by his cousin, partner, and neighbor Jan Hope in Heemstede. In 1781 Henry started receiving visitors to view the gardens and expansion process. These ambitious plans did not seem to make a dent in his enormous wealth; for in 1782 he purchased Hope Lodge in Pennsylvania as a wedding gift for the son of his American cousin Maria Ellis. Villa Welgelegen Interior of Provinciehuis Landhuis Welgelegen. ... Country Netherlands Province North Holland Coordinates Area 32. ... A map of Groenendaal park from the 1950s. ... Heemstede (population 25,660 in 2004) is a town in the northwestern Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. ... Hope Lodge is a historic building in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. ...

At Welgelegen he received many important figures of the day, and in the summer he was a neighbor there of many leading figures in Amsterdam commerce and politics. As an American (though considered English until well into the 1780's) he knew and received the Americans Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams who came to Europe for trade negotiations. Henry Hope was an Orangist and received William V of Orange who he knew through his uncle Thomas Hope. Prince William's wife Wilhelmina of Prussia spent her summers there after her husband's death as Princess of Orange until her death in 1820, probably for sentimental reasons, as she would have been a frequent visitor there and at Groenendaal in her early marriage years before the Napoleonic era forced her and her husband into exile in England, their former enemies. This article is becoming very long. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... William V, stadtholder of The Netherlands (March 8, 1748–April 9, 1806), also known as William V of Orange, was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. ... Wilhelmina of Prussia, born Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, (1751 – 1820) was the daughter of Augustus William, Prince of Prussia and Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. ... The Napoleonic Era is a period in the History of France and Europe. ...

Henry is said to have been influenced in his choice of the Neo-Classical style by Hôtel de Salm in Paris, built in 1782 by his friend Frédéric III, Rhinegrave of Salm-Kyrburg. Thomas Jefferson made sketches of both buildings. This Prince de Salm was a business relation as well as a friend and political ally, who in the 'Patriotic Period' (1782-1787) after William V was dethroned, became leader of a Prussian army that was defeated at Utrecht. He had been coming to the rescue of the above-mentioned Wilhelmina, who had been captured by Patriotic sympathisers at Goejanverwellesluis in 1786. After his defeat, the Prince of Salm fled to Amsterdam where it is said he hid in Henry Hope's house on the Keizersgracht for months before returning to France, where he was guillotined as a Royalist in 1794. Monticello Jeffersonian Architecture or Jeffersonian Colonial is an American form of Neo-Classicism or Classical Revivalist architecture based on U.S. president and patriot, Thomas Jeffersons designs of his home, Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. ... Construction of the original Hôtel de Salm The Palais de la Légion dHonneur (French for Palace of the Legion of Honor) is the building on the west bank of the River Seine in Paris that houses the Musée national de la Legion dHonneur (National Museum... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count or an earl. ... Salm-Kyrburg was a medieval statelet located in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... This article is becoming very long. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

The Wealth of Nations

From 1779 Henry became the manager of Hope & Co. and he, his art collection, and his company were famous. In 1786 Adam Smith dedicated the fourth edition of his book 'The Wealth of Nations' to Henry Hope in hopes of increasing his readership: 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Adam Smith, LL.D., FRS, FRSE (born June 5, 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. / July 17, 1790) was a Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. ... Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. ...

In this fourth Edition I have made no alterations of any kind. I now, however, find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr. HENRY HOP of Amsterdam. To that Gentleman I owe the most distinct, as well as liberal information, concerning a very interesting and important subject, the Bank of Amsterdam; of which no printed account had ever appeared to me satisfactory, or even intelligible. The name of that Gentleman is so well known in Europe, the information which comes from him must do so much honour to whoever has been favoured with it, and my vanity is so much interested in making this acknowledgment, that I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of prefixing this Advertisement to this new Edition of my Book.^[1]

Relocation to London

Henry Hope fled to London in 1794 before the French revolutionary forces. In the Amsterdam archives of Hope & Co. it states that he took 372 paintings with him. Among these were important works by Frans Hals, Rubens, Rembrandt and Sir Anthony van Dyck.^[2] He started a London branch of Hope & Co. and became friendly with Francis Baring with whom he entered upon many large land deals with various royal names. He clearly shared the genius of his uncle Thomas Hope (the elder), who had died in 1799, leaving him the business in Amsterdam to share with his cousin Jan Hope, who died 5 years later unexpectedly in the Hague. 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Picture of Rotterdam banker Archibald Hope in 1720 Hope & Co. ... Laughing Cavalier, 1624, canvas, relined, (H) 83cm x (W) 67cm, Wallace Collection, London. ... Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower Alte Pinakothek Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. ... This article is about the Dutch artist. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article or section needs to be wikified. ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Arms of The Hague Flag of The city of The Hague. ...

Land deals

The largest land deal that he and Barings entered upon was the issue of shares to finance the Louisiana Purchase in 1804, more than a year after the treaty was signed. He and Barings had been working on the deal for almost a decade, and sent young Alexander Baring as their agent to act in America, where he first negotiated a large land deal in Maine, then still a part of Massachusetts. While there, Alexander Baring helped settle a treaty with David Cobb. The deal, completed in February of 1796, gave Mr. Baring one-half interest in the "Penobscot million" and one-half interest in a third tract of acquired property north of this million-acre expanse. Sir Baring, to become Lord Ashburton, was himself to play a role in both the economic and political history of Maine in general and Down East Maine in particular. Along with Daniel Webster, he negotiated the treaty that resolved the disputes over Maine's northwest boundary (Henry had family in Nova Scotia). Barings Bank, previously known as Baring Brothers & Co. ... The Louisiana Purchase. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (October 1774 – May 13, 1848) was an English politician and financier. ... Official language(s) None (English de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (October 1774 – May 13, 1848) was an English politician and financier. ... David Cobb appealing for votes at the annual Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin, September 2004 David Keith Cobb (born December 24, 1962 in San Leon, Texas) is an American ex-lawyer and activist, and was the 2004 presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS). ... Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... ¢ Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation of Maine For other uses, see Penobscot (disambiguation). ... Ashburton is Ashburton, a town in Canterbury, New Zealand Ashburton, a town in Devon, England Ashburton, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 25, 1852) was a prominent American statesman during the nations antebellum, or Pre-Civil War, era. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages none (English, French, Gaelic) Flower Mayflower Tree Red Spruce Bird Osprey Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total...

Legacy

Henry Hope's family in British exile around 1804: From left to right: Henry, his sister Harriet Goddard's grandchildren Henry (1785), Adrian (1788), Elizabeth (1794), Henrietta (1790), Harriet herself, John Williams (looking grimly away from his wife), youngest son William (1803), and his wife Ann Goddard, who was the apple of Henry's eye until she started an affair with Baron van Dopff. This painting was partially to repair her marriage, and it didn't work. As soon as Henry died she moved in with Dopff. When John Williams died she married Dopff. Henry is pointing to the ashes of John Goddard, his brother-in-law and business associate, and above his head rests a model of Welgelegen, which he had just made over to John Williams

Though he always hoped to return to his beloved Welgelegen, Henry died childless in London in 1811, leaving a capital of 12 million guilders, an art collection, and several large properties. He was a generous uncle to his many nieces and nephews in London, Heemstede, and Pennsylvania. On his death, his accumulated wealth was split between the children of his cousin Jan (who inherited Deepdene), the children of his cousin Maria (who inherited Hope Lodge), and the children of his sister Harriet (who inherited villa Welgelegen). Before his death, he commissioned a family portrait with his sister Harriet and the family of his adopted son John Williams Hope and Harriet's daughter Ann. The painting, by Benjamin West, shows a model of Welgelegen that sits above a mahogany chest, probably designed by Thomas Hope. The painting currently hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A fitting place, since it is built itself in the neo-classical style and is so close to where Harriet and Henry were born, in Braintree. Image File history File links Hopefamily. ... Image File history File links Hopefamily. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Dorking is a market town nestling under the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London, in Surrey in England. ... Hope Lodge is a historic building in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. ... Villa Welgelegen Interior of Provinciehuis Landhuis Welgelegen. ... Benjamin West Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American Revolution. ... Thomas Hope (c. ... Museums of Fine Arts include: The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas The Museum of Fine Arts in St. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... There are several places named Braintree, or a variant thereof:- Braintree, Essex - a town in the county of Essex, in the United Kingdom The town gives its name to the constituency of Braintree. ...