Author(s): WILLIAM HOGARTH

Art Biography

The greatest satirical painter and printmaker of his time, Hogarth was also a portraitist of uncommon acuity and an important theorist of art. His forthright character and blunt honesty shine in his autobiographical Anecdotes. This is the first new edition for nearly fifty years, and the first for over two hundred to be entirely reset and to be fully illustrated. It is a fascinating picture of a great artist and the tumultuous world he lived in and helped to shape. An introduction by leading expert Martin Myrone illuminates the context of this invaluable memoir, which has a unique place in the history of art. Pre-eminent in his own time, William Hogarth (1697-1764) has a claim to be the most lastingly influential figure in English art. Painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist, his work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called â modern moral subjectsâ , perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. These will be shown together for the first time ever at the major exhibition planned for autumn 2019 at the Soane Museum, London. Martin Myrone is Lead Curator, British Art to 1800, at the Tate and the co-author of Rude Britannia: From Hogarth to Now from Tate Publishing. 62 colour illustrations