Hogarth paintings

A flourishing urban scene with well fed citizens; in the foreground, butchers, fish wives and a City of London porter hold large tankards of beer; a butcher lifts a skinny Frenchman into the air with one hand; in the background, paviours repair the street, chairmen carry a stout lady, tailors sew in a well lit attic, builders work on the roof of a house clad with scaffolding, and a warehouseman hauls a barrel to an upper storey - all are drinking beer; poverty appears only in the ragged coat…

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During his lifetime, William Hogarth painted a number of satirical portraits in which he attacked folly and vice, including extravagance, drunkenness, and gambling. Hogarth was a theater enthusiast and thought of his paintings in dramatic as opposed to pictorial terms. "The Lady’s Last Stake" was inspired by a comedy of the same name by British playwright Colley Cibber (1671–1757), in which a married aristocratic woman gambles away her fortune to an army officer. The soldier then proposes…

Portrait of a Family, c. 1735 William Hogarth

Country folk visiting Georgian London and returning unscathed with their purse or their virtue intact was said to be a rare thing. It was easy for gullible

National Gallery of Art

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Hogarth past exhibition at Tate Britain, series

Mary Young, aka Jenny Diver, was only in her 30s when she was executed in London

William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 5, The Bagnio, about 1743. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.