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Biography
William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship with an engraver, but did not complete the apprenticeship. His father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed William's paintings and prints with a hard edge.
Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read."
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William Hogarth Gin Lane
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William Hogarth Satan, Sin and Death (A Scene from Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’)
c.1735–40 -
William Hogarth The Painter and his Pug
1745 -
William Hogarth O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’)
1748 -
William Hogarth A Scene from ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ VI
1731 -
William Hogarth The Strode Family
c.1738 -
William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress (plate 8)
1735–63 -
William Hogarth The Enraged Musician
1741
Artist as subject
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William Hogarth The Painter and his Pug
1745 -
William Hogarth O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’)
1748 -
William Hogarth Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo
1759 -
William Hogarth, Charles Mosley O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’)
1749 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Female Nude and Hogarth’s ‘Line of Grace’
c.1830–1 -
Godfrey Samuel, recipient: Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky Postcard from Godfrey Samuel
13 July 1963 -
Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands
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Julian Trevelyan Scrapbook
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Anita Bartle, Grant Richards (London, UK) This is my Birthday
1902
Film and audio
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Podcast
The Art of Comedy
Is it okay to laugh in galleries and how have artists used humour in their work?
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Inspired by
Ken Loach inspired by William Hogarth
Director Ken Loach brings his cinematic eye to the art of William Hogarth
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Playlist
MixTate: Lixo on William Hogarth
London-based producer Lixo takes inspiration from William Hogarth’s Gin Lane
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MixTate: Lixo on William Hogarth
For the tenth mix in our series, London-based producer Lixo takes inspiration from William Hogarth’s Gin Lane 1751
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Late at Tate November: Behind the scenes. Power: Richard Thomas
Join Tate's artist-educator Richard Thomas for a tour and candid discussion on the power behind the early art markets through … -
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Writing London
In conjunction with Hogarth, this creative writing workshop explores the urban environment as a source of artistic inspiration and production. -
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Mark Hallet on Hogarth
William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience. -
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Introducing Hogarth
Christine Riding, co-curator of Hogarth, introduces the key theme of the exhibition, which presents Hogarth’s work as strikingly modern and … -
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Stravinsky's Progress
Igor Stravinsky first saw William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress engravings in Chicago in 1946 and soon embarked on writing his … -
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Hogarth Study Day – Part 2
An audio recording from the Hogarth Study Day held at Tate Britain. William Hogarth is recognised as the first great …
Features
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Art Term
Rococo
Light, sensuous, intensely decorative French style developed in the early eighteenth century following death of Louis XIV and in reaction …
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Art Term
Genre painting
The term genre painting refers to paintings which depict scenes of everyday life
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Art Term
Conversation piece
A conversation piece is an informal group portrait popular in the eighteenth century, small in scale and showing people – …
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Art Term
Engraving
Engraving is a printmaking technique that involves making incisions into a metal plate which retain the ink and form the …
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Art Term
Modern moral subject
The modern moral subject is a type of painting that was invented by English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764), which satirizes …
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Art Term
Portrait
A portrait is a representation of a particular person. A self-portrait is a portrait of the artist by the artist
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2: Collection and Display: National beginnings
This curatorial essay by Tim Batchelor explores how British art as displayed at the Tate began with Hogarth. Written to … -
In Focus
Hogarth at the Tate
Curatorial essay by Tim Batchelor to accompany BP Spotlight: William Hogarth 1697–1764, Tate Britain 27 October 2014 – 26 April … -
Tate Etc
William Hogarth's O the Roast Beef of Old England ('The Gate of Calais')
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