Hogarth Paintings
William hogarth arrived in the medium of painting having earlier trained as a silver engraver and printmaker.
Hogarth paintings. They became widely popular and mass produced via prints in his lifetime and he was by far the most significant english artist of his generation. Choose your favorite william hogarth paintings from millions of available designs. Although pugnaciously hostile to continental art he succumbed to french influence. Influenced by french and italian painting and engraving hogarth s works are mostly satirical caricatures sometimes bawdily sexual mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture.
William hogarth frsa ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑːr θ. 10 november 1697 26 october 1764 was an english painter printmaker pictorial satirist social critic and editorial cartoonist his work 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. The collection contains the set called marriage a la mode. Hogarth is best known for his series paintings of modern moral subjects of which he sold engravings on subscription.