Where to See William Hogarth

10 more museums hold works by William Hogarth with smaller collections, not listed here.

• Where did William Hogarth live?+

  William Hogarth was born in London in 1697. One summer day, he went on an excursion to Highgate with some companions.
• Who was William Hogarth?+

  William Hogarth was a painter and engraver who lived from 1697 to 1764. Influenced by contemporary satirists like Fielding and Swift, he invented a new genre: the comic strip, or a sequence of anecdotal pictures that poked fun at the foibles of the day.
• What did William Hogarth do?+

  William Hogarth exemplified a comical, satirical social outlook on English society in English painting. He considered himself to be a “comic history painter” who could entertain while improving the mind, and his narrative images were very satirical.
• Why does William Hogarth use iconography?+

  William Hogarth would paint edifying stories and warning examples in such a way that anyone who saw the series of pictures would understand all the incidents and the lessons they taught. His paintings showed a 'Rake's Progress' from profligacy and idleness to crime and death, or 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' from a boy teasing a cat to a grown-up's brutal murder.
• Is William Hogarth rococo?+

  William Hogarth's example frustrates any attempt to view the English Rococo in a definitive or simplistic way. His early training was with an ornamental engraver, and he advocated a concept of beauty based on the sinuous line.
• William Hogarth most famous work?+

  William Hogarth's sardonic series of paintings that mocked high society gained wide recognition. One such story tells of a girl who arrives in London only to be lured into a more lucrative career as a prostitute.
• What was William Hogarth known for?+

  William Hogarth is known for satirising contemporary society in his paintings and engravings. He considered himself to be a dramatist in paint, and his works gained wide recognition, as he made engravings from them.
• William Hogarth art movement?+

  William Hogarth's example frustrates any attempt to view the English Rococo in a definitive or simplistic way. His early training was with an ornamental engraver, and he advocated a concept of beauty based on the sinuous line.