The Art of Hogarth

Paulson, Ronald

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William Hogarth (1697-1764) was the first major British artist, and in some ways he was the most accessible. He dealt with everyday subjects, told compelling stories, and made people laugh and cry. He is best known for his engravings, the Harlot's Progress and the Rake's Progress, Marriage à la Mode and the Four Stages of Cruelty, which from the time of publication to the present have never lacked a wide audience. And yet his most important and most represantative works are his paintings, beginning with the early watercolours of Hudibras ard ending with the four great Election paintings. His monumental portrait of his friend Captain Thomas Coram opened up the great age of English portraiture; his experiments in history painting, both comic and serious, were remarkable both for their intellectual and their aesthetic qualities; and his oil sketches show a formal expressiveness far ahead of their time.