(1749 - 1838), collector, of Wormleybury, Herts, e. s. of Sir Abraham Hume; educ. Eton and Trin. Camb. 1766; m. 1771 Amelia Egerton (1751 - 1809), dau. of Bp. of Durham; suc. fa. 1772 as 2nd Bt.; MP 1774 - 80, 1807 - 18; suc. cos. 1785 to estate of Ferryside, Ber.; Dilettanti 1789.
1786 - 7 [dep. England Jun. 1786] Milan, Mantua (1 Nov.), Venice (13 Nov. 1786), Naples (18 Jan. 1787), Rome, Florence
Hume went to Italy with his wife and fourteen-year-old daughter Amelia (1772 - 1837, later Bs. Farnborough). They were received in Milan, on Francis Egerton's introduction, by Alberico Barbiano di Belgioioso and the marchese Litta.1 On 13 November 1786 they arrived in Venice,2 where Hume bought from G.M. Sasso two paintings by Canaletto.3 The Humes were listed in Naples on 18 January 1787.4 Sometime in 1787 Hume bought from James Byres in Rome an album of drawings after the facade paintings in Rome by Polidoro (now in the Institut N?erlandais, Paris),5 and in Florence he acquired paintings by Annibale (Vision of St Anthony) and Lodovico Carracci (The Drinker).6
1. Belgioioso 133, fasc.1; 135, fasc.1 (letters from Egerton, 20 Jun. 1786, and Hume, 1 Nov. 1786). 2. ASV is 760. 3. Constable-Links, nos.309, 376 (Sotheby's, 26 Mar. 1969). 4. World Fashionable Advertiser, 5 Feb. 1787. 5. Note by J. Byam Shaw. 6. Borroni 1974b, 58.