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William Hogarth

1697–1764 · British

Born
1697 · London
Died
1764 · London

386 works in the Collect24 Registry

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William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist, and writer whose work includes realistic portraiture and comic strip-like series. He is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode.

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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. 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. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Hogarth was born in the City of London into 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 payment 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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Selected from 386 works by William Hogarth in the Collect24 Registry.

William Hogarth, Before

William Hogarth

Before, 1730–1731

Oil on canvas

40 × 33.7 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-137002

William Hogarth, After

William Hogarth

After, 1730–1731

Oil on canvas

39.4 × 33.7 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-132637

William Hogarth, Henry Fielding

William Hogarth

Henry Fielding, ca. 1835

Etching

12.7 × 10.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1057958

William Hogarth, The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Aet. 67. A.D. 1743

William Hogarth

The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Aet. 67. A.D. 1743, 1743

Engraving

43 × 30.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1057957

William Hogarth, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

William Hogarth

William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 1732

oil paint

47.9 × 35.2 cm

Yale Center for British Art

C24-464008

William Hogarth, Mrs Salter

William Hogarth

Mrs Salter, 1741

oil paint

63.5 × 76.2 cm

Tate

C24-462611

William Hogarth, The Curate and the Barber Disguising Themselves to convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth

The Curate and the Barber Disguising Themselves to convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote), 1756 or after

Etching and engraving; third state of three

25.8 × 17.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-460018

William Hogarth, The Curate and Barber Disguising Themselves to Convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth

The Curate and Barber Disguising Themselves to Convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote), 1756 or after

Etching and engraving; third state of three

24.5 × 17 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-460017

William Hogarth, The Innkeeper's Wife & Daughter taking Care of ye Don after being beaten & bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth

The Innkeeper's Wife & Daughter taking Care of ye Don after being beaten & bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote), 1756 or after

Etching and engraving; third state of three

24 × 17.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-460019

William Hogarth, The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter Taking Care of ye Don after Being Beaten and Bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth

The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter Taking Care of ye Don after Being Beaten and Bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote), 1756 or after

Etching and engraving; third state of three

25.2 × 18.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-460020

William Hogarth, View of Ranby's House

William Hogarth

View of Ranby's House, May 1, 1781

Etching and engraving; second state of two

10.1 × 15.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-459065

William Hogarth, The New Metamorphosis, Plate 6: The Story of Cupid and Psyche

William Hogarth

The New Metamorphosis, Plate 6: The Story of Cupid and Psyche, 1724

Etching and engraving; second state of two

14.4 × 7.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-459062

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