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A miniature of the sitter by Richard Cosway, signed and dated 1796, was sold from the di Portanova Collection, Christie's, New York, 20 October 2000, lot 37 and is illustrated in D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 360, pl. 104C.
Henry Bone's drawing for the present lot, inscribed - Williams Hope Esqre after/ Cosway - for Sir F. Baring-/ Decr 1806 is illustrated in R. Walker, Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings, The Walpole Society, LX, 1999, p. 331, no.277; and is the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG D17601).
John Williams Hope was a banker and merchant, a partner in Hope & Co, a famous Dutch bank that spanned two and a half centuries. The son of William Williams, he assumed the name of Hope on his marriage to Ann, niece and heiress of Henry Hope. A banker in Amsterdam, he was one of the eight statesman of Holland 1794-1806.
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740-1810) who commissioned the present lot was an English merchant banker.