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| William Hogarth (1697-1764) was a British painter and engraver who studied under a silverplate engraver and later under Sir James Thornhill, whose daughter he married. William Hogarth established his reputation with the paintings and engravings of ‘A Harlot’s Progress’ (1731-32). Hogarth moralized social satires in narrative series with ‘A Rake’s Progress,’ ‘Industry and Idleness,’ ‘Gin Lane’ and the paintings of ‘Marriage ŕ la Mode.’ Hogarth campaigned for an Engraving Copyright Act, the so-called Hogarth’s Act 1734 and wrote ‘The Analysis of Beauty’ in 1753 expressing his artistic theories. |
 | William Hogarth: A Life and a World The paintings and engravings of William Hogarth, the subject of this biography, have always been popular, but outside art history little is known about his life. He moved in the worlds of theatre, literature, journalism and politics, and found subjects for his work over the whole gamut of 18th-century London, from street scenes to drawing rooms, and from churches to gambling halls and prisons. more information>>
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