7 facts about William Hogarth

William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His performance 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 perform is in view of that 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 going on an apprenticeship next an engraver, but did not conclusive the apprenticeship. His father underwent periods of dirty fortune, and was at one epoch imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed William’s paintings and prints taking into consideration a difficult 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 possible portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by in the distance 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.”