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Self Portrait of William Hogarth - Engraving 1861

1861

About the Item

William Hogarth was an English painter and engraver, the outstanding British artist of his period. During his childhood, his father, a schoolteacher, was imprisoned for debt, and this early experience of the seamy side of life left a deep mark on Hogarth (much of his output is concerned with the contrast between success and failure, and he depicted prisons in several works). He trained as an engraver of silver plate and by 1720 had set up his own business in London, doing various kinds of commercial work. In his spare time he studied painting, first at the St Martin's Lane Academy and later under Sir James Thornhill, whose daughter he married in 1729. By the early 1730s he had achieved some success as a painter of conversation pieces and at about the same time he invented the idea of using a sequence of anecdotal pictures ‘similar to representations on the stage’ to point a moral and satirize social abuses. Read moreText source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press) Engraved by J Moore, Sc "Copy of self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse, after the painting in the National Portrait Gallery; the artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor beside the chair; in a niche in the wall behind the easel is a volume of prints and a burin; leaning against the leg of the easel, a copy of the "Analysis of Beauty" and the accompanying print, Plate I (Paulson 195); illustration to James Hannay's 'The Complete Works of William Hogarth' . Lettered with facsimile of artist's autograph as title, and: 'J Moore Sc. - Engraved by J. Moore, SC. Light foxing of extremities, otherwise quite good.
  • Creation Year:
    1861
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 6.7 in (17 cm)Width: 8.08 in (20.5 cm)
  • Medium:
  • After:
    William Hogarth (1697 - 1764, British)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Bournemouth, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1589214970052

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