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William Hogarth
English artist
born 1697 - died 1764

Apprentice to: Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734).
Son-in-law of: Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734)

William Hogarth is unquestionably one of the greatest English artists and a man of remarkably individual character and thought. William Hogarth is the great innovator in English art. On one hand, William Hogarth was the first to paint themes from Shakespeare, Milton and the theater, and the founder of a wholly original genre of moral history, which was long known as Hogarthian. On the other, William Hogarth investigated the aesthetic principles of his art, which resulted in his book “The Analysis of Beauty”(1753).

William Hogarth was born on 10 November, 1697. William Hogarth was the 5th child of Richard Hogarth, a schoolmaster and classical scholar from the north of England who had come to London in the mid-1680s. His father’s premature death in 1718 affected Hogarth’s early life, his training and forced him to earn money.- Hogarth William oil painting, England antique paintings- Hogarth William bio, Hogarth William oil paintings antique and England oil paintings art of Hogarth oil painting antique, antique painting and antique oil paintings England.

In February 1713/14, Hogarth began his apprenticeship to a plate engraver, Ellis Gamble, who was a distant relation. By April 1720, William Hogarth set up an independent business as an engraver. His first works included a number of commissions for small etched cards and bookplates, and in 1721 William Hogarth produced two inventive engraved allegories. With these topical prints The South Sea Scheme and The Lottery, which aroused considerable attention, William Hogarth started his black-and-white satires which made him so widely known in Britain and abroad. His first success as a painter was in the ‘conversational pieces’, in which figure informal groups of family and friends surrounded by customary things from their everyday life. William Hogarth was not the inventor of the genre, and had many contemporary rivals, but his pictures are marked with his own individuality: The Fishing Party (c.1730), The Wedding of Stephen Bechingham and Mary Cox (c.1730). In 1729, William Hogarth married a daughter of his painting teacher Sir James Thornhill. The scene from The Beggar’s Opera, the picture of an actual stage, brought him great success, and at about about 1730, William Hogarth was commissioned for several versions. The result of this accomplishment was the idea of his own ‘theater’: the creation of ‘pictorial dramas’ and reaching wider public through the means of engraving. The first successful series The Harlot’s Progress, of which only the engravings now exist (the originals were burnt in 1755), was immediately followed by the tremendous verve of The Rake’s Progress; the masterpiece of the story series The Marriage a la Mode followed, after an interval of twelve years. Hogarth’ satires were serious moral and social satires, besides being good paintings. In 1935, William Hogarth opened his own academy in St. Martyn's Lane.

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