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See also: English See also: art-See also: collector, and author of See also: Anastasius, See also: born in See also: London about 1770, was the eldest son of See also: John Hope of
See also: Amsterdam, and was descended from a branch of an old Scottish See also: family who for several generations were extensive merchants in London and Amsterdam
.
About the age of eighteen he started on a tour through various parts of See also: Europe, See also: Asia and See also: Africa, where he interested himself especially in architecture and sculpture, making a large collection of the See also: principal See also: objects which attracted his See also: attention
.
On his return to London about 1796 he See also: purchased a See also: house in Duchess Street, See also: Cavendish Square, which he fitted up in a very elaborate See also: style, from drawings made by himself
.
In 1807 he published sketches of his furniture, accompanied by letterpress, in a folio See also: volume, entitled See also: Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, which had considerable influence in effecting a change in the upholstery and interior decoration of houses, notwithstanding that See also: Byron had referred scornfully to him as " House-furnisher withal, one See also: Thomas hight." Hope's furniture designs were in that pseudo-classical manner which is generally called " English
See also: Empire." It was sometimes extravagant, and often heavy, but was much more restrained than the wilder and later flights of See also: Sheraton in this style
.
At the best, however, it was a not very inspiring mixture of See also: Egyptian and See also: Roman motives
.
In 1800 he published the Costumes of the Ancients, and in 1812 Designs of See also: Modern Costumes, See also: works which display. a large amount of antiquarian research
.
He was also, as his See also: father had been—the elder Hope's country house near See also: Haarlem was crowded with See also: fine pictures—a munificent See also: patron of the highest forms of art, and both at his London house and his country seat at Deepdene near See also: Dorking he formed large collections of paintings, sculpture and antiques
.
Deepdene in his See also: day became a famous resort of men of letters as well as of See also: people of fashion, and among the luxuries suggested by his fine taste was a See also: miniature library in several See also: languages in each bedroom
.
Thorvaldsen, the Danish sculptor, was indebted to him for the early recognition of his talents, and he also gave frequent employment to Chantrey and Flaxman—it was to his See also: order that the latter illustrated See also: Dante
.
In 1819 he published anonymously his novel Anastasius, or See also: Memoirs of a Modern See also: Greek, written at the close of the 18th century, a See also: work which, chiefly on account of the novel character of its subject, caused a See also: great sensation
.
It was at first generally attributed to See also: Lord Byron, who told Lady Blessington that he wept bitterly on See also: reading it because he had not written it and Hope had
.
But, though remarkable for the acquaintance it displays with Eastern See also: life, and distinguished by considerable imaginative vigour and much graphic and picturesque description, its paradoxes are not so striking as those of Lord Byron; and, notwithstanding some eloquent and forcible passages, the only reason which warranted its ascription to him was the general type of character to which its See also: hero belonged
.
Hope died on the 3rd of See also: February 1831
.
He was the author of two works published posthumously—the Origin and Prospects of Han (1831), in which his speculations diverged widely from
the usual orthodox opinions, and an See also: Historical Essay on Archi-
tecture (1835), an elaborate description of the architecture of
the See also: middle ages, illustrated by drawings made by himself in
See also: Italy and See also: Germany
.
He is commonly known in literature as
" Anastasius " Hope
.
He married (18o6) Louisa de la Poer
See also: Beresford, daughter of Lord Decies, archbishop of See also: Tuam
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