Archibald Hope the Elder

Sanders was a Dutch painter, active as a painter of history subjects, landscapes, and portraits. The original canvas is oval and has had its corners added to make a rectangle. Archibald Hope (1664-1743), of the Hopes of Hopetoun, was a Scottish merchant who was born and lived in Rotterdam. His sons set up the Hope Bank in Amsterdam. The art collector and theorist Thomas Hope of Deepdene was his grandson.