2. Was one of the most outstanding English artists of
the XVIIIth century;
The genres he preferred:
portrait,
conversation piece,
moralistic and dramatic narrative;
Turned to be an innovator in the English portrait
painting.
7. The Pool of Bethesda
The Good Samaritan
The Gate of Calais
8. “The Painter and
his Pug”
1745
The Subject Matter
The Image of the
Portrayed
Symbolism
The Depiction of the Pug
The Colour Scale
The Composition
9. Bust of Hogarth,
Leicester Square,
London.
On 23 March 1729 Hogarth married Jane
Thornhill.
Hogarth died in London on 26 October 1764.
Farewell great Painter of Mankind
Who reach'd the noblest point of Art
Whose pictur'd Morals charm the
Mind
And through the Eye correct the
Heart.
His friend, actor David Garrick, composed the
following inscription for his tombstone: