biography
pronunciation:
[hohgah(r)th]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1697–1764)
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| biography:
| Painter and engraver, born in London, UK. By 1720 he had his own business as an engraver, and by the late 1720s as a portrait painter. Tiring of conventional art forms, he began his ‘modern moral subjects’, such as ‘A Rake's Progress’ (1733–5), and his masterpiece, the ‘Marriage à la Mode’ (1743–5, Tate, London). His crowded canvases are full of revealing details and pointed subplots. In 1743 he visited Paris, and followed this with several prints of low life, such as the ‘Industry and Idleness’ series (1747). |
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