William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and
The Painter and his Pug, 1745 self-portrait of Hogarth with his pug Trump
William Hogarth by Roubiliac, 1741, National Portrait Gallery, London
The Assembly at Wanstead House. Richard Child, 1st Earl Tylney and family in foreground
A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. The
William Hogarth
…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-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as…