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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 Satan, Sin and Death (A Scene from Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’)
c.1735–40 -
Prints after William Hogarth Satan, Sin and Death, engraved by Thomas Rowlandson and John Ogbourne after T00790
1792 -
William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress (plate 7)
1735 -
William Hogarth, Luke Sullivan Moses Brought to Pharoah’s Daughter
1752–62 -
Prints after William Hogarth Beggar’s Opera, Act III, engraved by William Blake
1790 -
William Hogarth Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury
1744–7 -
William Hogarth Head of a Lady, Called Lady Pembroke
c.1740 -
William Hogarth Portrait of George Osborne, later John Ranby Jnr
c.1748–50
Artist as subject
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Female Nude and Hogarth’s ‘Line of Grace’
c.1830–1 -
William Hogarth Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo
1759 -
William Hogarth O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’)
1748 -
William Hogarth, Charles Mosley O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’)
1749 -
Julian Trevelyan Scrapbook
14 December 1932–[c.1947] -
Anita Bartle, Grant Richards (London, UK) This is my Birthday
1902 -
Anita Bartle, Grant Richards (London, UK) This is my Birthday
1902 -
Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands
[August–September 1914] -
Godfrey Samuel, recipient: Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky Postcard from Godfrey Samuel
13 July 1963
Film and audio
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Hogarth Study Day – Part 1
An audio recording from the Hogarth Study Day held at Tate Britain. William Hogarth is recognised as the first great …
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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 …
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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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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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Mark Hallet on Hogarth
William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.
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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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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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