William Hogarth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Hogarth

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1697

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 26-Oct-1764

Profession: illustrator, painter, graphic artist, caricaturist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.
His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", He is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family.
In his youth he took up an apprenticeship with an engraver, but did not complete the apprenticeship.
His father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed William's paintings and prints with a hard edge.Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture.
They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation.
Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words.
Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read."



Description	British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	10 November 1697	25 October 1764
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	London, Chiswick
Authority control	: Q171344 VIAF: 17268409 ISNI: 0000 0001 2099 3749 ULAN: 500004242 LCCN: n80126106 NLA: 35201047 WorldCat