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| − | '''William Hogarth''' (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in [[English]] art. He was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters. | + | '''William Hogarth''' (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in [[English]] art. He was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native [[Painting School|school of painting]] was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters. |
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Revision as of 17:46, August 16, 2008
William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in English art. He was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters.
Wanstead Assembly at Wanstead House.
See also
External links
- "Hogarth, Constable and Turner" - appeared in "Masterpieces of English Painting" by Hans Huth