william hogarth self portrait painter and his pug

#WILLIAM HOGARTH SELF PORTRAIT PAINTER AND HIS PUG SERIES#

He despised the slavish following of foreign models, and believed that art should be based on the imitation of nature, like the work of the great English authors. The oval canvas containing Hogarth’s self portrait appears propped up on volumes of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, authors who inspired Hogarth’s own commitment to drama, satire and epic poetry.

#WILLIAM HOGARTH SELF PORTRAIT PAINTER AND HIS PUG SERIES#

His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called 'modern moral subjects', perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's. The only living object in the painting is Hogarth's pet pug, Trump.Hogarth announces himself as essentially English. The famous self-portrait of 1745, a year that marked, in many ways, the high point of Hogarth’s career, was also an artistic manifesto. William Hogarth FRSA (/hor/ 10 November 1697 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. All this comes across in his famous self-portrait The Painter and His Pug. 1757 left and originally sold in a portfolio under the title The Caricatures on Hogarth by Paul Sandby, further labelled Retrospective Art, from the Collection of the late Paul Sandby, Esq.

1697-1764) featuring the artist and his Pug, Trump. The Graphic Arts Collection recently acquired this rare print, designed after William Hogarth’s self-portrait, ca. The engraving elaborates on the painting by including a paint pot (lower left) and a copy of Hogarth's treatise The Analysis of Beauty (lower right).As Elizabeth Einberg and Ronald Paulson both note, the portrait. The palette and graver represent Hogarth's twin roles as painter and engraver and the 'Line of Beauty' alludes to his favourite art theory. William Hogarth’s O the Roast Beef of Old England (The Gate of Calais), 1748. The Painter and His Pug (1745) is a self-portrait by the English artist William Hogarth (l. Final state of William Hogarth's engraving reproducing his last self portrait, Self-Portrait of William Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse (1757-8, National Portrait Gallery, London). William Shakespeare and John Milton were generally acknowledged to be the greatest modern English authors and Jonathan Swift was a vigorous modern satirist. The artist's painting in informal dress rests on a pile of books labelled (in the finished engraving) Shakespeare, Milton and Swift. An engraving after a self-portrait of William Hogarth half length, turned three-quarters to the left, wearing a Montero cap within a fictive oval canvas. It reproduces the painted self-portrait that is now in the Tate Gallery, London and was designed by Hogarth to be used as a frontispiece in bound collections of his prints.The portrait deliberately projects an image - a guide to the way Hogarth wanted others to think of him. This is an unfinished proof engraving, before the lettering was added.

William hogarth self portrait painter and his pug