John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun

Book Description

circa 1921. Colour printed mezzotint. Proof before letters. Printed on thick wove paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 24 1/2 x 18 inches. 25 7/8 x 18 1/4 inches. 29 7/8 x 22 1/4 inches. A striking mezzotint portrait by Henry Macbeth-Raeburn, the celebrated Scottish engraver. Henry Macbeth-Raeburn was a noted Scottish painter and mezzotint engraver active in Edinburgh during the 1920's. He was a member of the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers, and Engravers. He is known today for his stylish mezzotints after celebrated eighteenth and nineteenth century portraits, which reproduced with accuracy and finesse the glory of these earlier masters. He had a penchant for the paintings of Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Sargent and produced many fine prints after their works. John Hope (1765 - 1823), the fourth Earl of Hopetoun, was a military man, attaining the rank of general, who served in the Napoleonic Wars, mostly in the Mediterranean and the Peninsular Campaign. He was quite a brave man and was highly commended by Wellington, who said, " he was the ablest man in the Peninsular army." He had eleven children, nine of whom were boys. Benezit, Dictionnaire de Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. 8, p. 905; Thieme/Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der bilden Künstler, Vol. 23/24, p. 505; DNB.

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