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Summary

Benjamin West : The Hope Family of Sydenham, Kent wikidata:Q20634490 reasonator:Q20634490
Artist
Benjamin West (1738–1820) wikidata:Q313498 q:it:Benjamin West
Benjamin West
Description American-British painter and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 10 October 1738 / 10 November 1738 Edit this at Wikidata 11 March 1820 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Springfield Township London
Work location
London , Roma, Philadelphia
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creator QS:P170,Q313498
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Title
The Hope Family of Sydenham, Kent
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Henry Hope and his family posed below a maquette of his villa Welgelegen in Haarlem, the Netherlands. From left to right: Henry, his sister Harriet Goddard's grandchildren Henry (1785), Adrian (1788), Elizabeth (1794), Henrietta (1790), Harriet herself, Henry's adopted son John Williams Hope, John's youngest son William (1802), and John's wife Ann Goddard.
Date 1804 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 183.2 cm (72.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata ; width: 258.4 cm (101.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+183.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+258.44U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Accession number
06.2362 ( Museum of Fine Arts Boston ) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Painted about 1804 in London when the family was in exile from French invading forces in Amsterdam. Ann Goddard 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 .
References
Source/Photographer http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-hope-family-of-sydenham-kent-31279

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