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Originally titled, “Comic Muse” Hogarth’s was made in 1758 to celebrate the artist’s appointment as Sergeant-Painter to King George II. Hogarth later reworked the engraving and altered the title to read, “William Hogarth – 1764”.
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Originally titled, “Comic Muse” Hogarth’s was made in 1758 to celebrate the artist’s appointment as Sergeant-Painter to King George II. Hogarth later reworked the engraving and altered the title to read, “William Hogarth – 1764”.
William Hogarth (1697 - 1794)
Hogarth was born in London, the son of an unsuccessful schoolmaster and writer from Westmoreland. After apprenticeship to a goldsmith, he began to produce his own engraved designs from 1710. He later took up oil painting, starting with small portrait groups called conversation pieces. He went on to create a series of paintings satirising contemporary customs, but based on earlier Italian prints, of which the first was ‘The Harlot’s Progress’ (1731), and perhaps the most famous ‘The Rake’s Progress’. His engravings were so plagiarised that he lobbied for the Copyright Act of 1735 as protection for writers and artists.
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