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William Hogarth
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William Hogarth, Painter and his Pug, 1745
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| Born | (1697-11-10)10 November 1697 London, England
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| Died | 26 October 1764(1764-10-26) (aged 66) London, England
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| Resting place | St. Nicholas's Churchyard, Chiswick Mall, Chiswick, London |
| Occupation | Painter, engraver, satirist |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Thornhill |
William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist.
He is said to have started western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraits to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". His work is so well known that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
Portrait of Mary Lewis, 1755
Captain Lord George Graham, circa 1746
Hogarth's portrait of The Shrimp Girl 1740–1745
Hogarth's Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, 1740
Hogarth was also a popular portrait painter. In 1746 he painted actor David Garrick as Richard III. He was paid £200, “which was more,” he wrote, “than any English artist ever received for a single portrait”. In the same year a sketch of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, afterwards beheaded on Tower Hill, had an exceptional success.
Hogarth's portrait of his friend, the philanthropic Captain Coram (1740; Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now Foundling Museum), and his unfinished oil sketch of The Shrimp Girl (National Gallery, London) are highly regarded. There are also portraits of his wife and his two sisters and of many others.
