William hogarth

William Hogarth, A rake's progress (1733) "The eight paintings in William…

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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…

Hogarth's pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than characters.

"The Reward of Cruelty", the fourth and last illustration for The Four Stages of Cruelty; a series of four printed engravings published by English artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) in 1751. - Mysterious Art Century

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‘Scene in a Tavern (The Orgy)’ was created in 1735 by William Hogarth in Baroque style. Find more prominent pieces of allegorical painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

This typically Hogarth scene was probably inspired by Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad' about a man of limited writing ability who lived in poverty but nevertheless pursued a career in literature, and was created as a companion piece to 'The Enraged Musician', also by the artist. 1934 P500