William Hogarth: The Rise and Fall of a Phizmonger (Part 2)

How did William Hogarth help create the modern art world as we know it?  Did he really stage the first conceptual art exhibition?  And why in the final years of his life was he the subject of ridicule? Join Alastair and James as they chart the life and times of the man that helped transform the story of British art. 

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Artworks in this episode:
William Hogarth, O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748, Tate Britain, London
Canaletto, London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge, 1747, Private Collection
Jean Siméon Chardin, The Ray, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Jean Siméon Chardin, Still-Life with Cuts of Meat, 1730, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
Anthony van Dyck, Lord John Stuart and His Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, c.1638, National Gallery, London
William Hogarth, George Arnold, 1738-40, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
William Hogarth, Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants, c.1750-55, Tate Britain, London
William Hogarth, Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, c.1740, The Foundling Museum, London
William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: Plates 1-6, 1743, National Gallery, London
William Hogarth, Gin Lane, 1751
William Hogarth, Beer Street, 1751
William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, 1753
William Hogarth, The Painter and his Pug, 1745, Tate Britain, London
William Hogarth, Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo, 1759, Tate Britain, London
William Hogarth, The Bathos, 1764

Recommended Reading:
Jenny Uglow, William Hogarth: A Life and a World, 1998
Mark Hallett, Hogarth, 2007
Jacqueline Riding, Hogarth: Life in Progress, 2022

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