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3 unusual facts about Henry Hope


Charles Percier

These engravings spread their style beyond the Empire; they helped put a French stamp on the English Regency style and influenced the connoisseur-designer, Henry Hope.

De Kleine Komedie

In 1784 Henry Hope of Hope & Co. purchased ground on the Amstel near the east side of the Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam, together with his fellow banker friends Balthazar Elias Abbema, Pieter de Smeth, Henry Fizeaux, Jean Alexander Botereau, and Pieter Muilman.

Orangist Henry Hope took over the running of the establishment until he fled the country before Napoleon's army in 1794.



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Villa Welgelegen

In 1800 Henry Hope became influential together with his London friend Francis Baring in financing the Louisiana Purchase.

William Hope

Bob Hope (William Henry Hope), British-born American comedian and actor