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Today’s #DailyHogarth is this stunning & affectionate portrait of the Hogarths’ household servants @Tate 1750-5. Their identity is uncertain. An early biog lists a Ben Ives, Mrs Chapel was a maid at Chiswick & Jane H had a servant called Samuel. The central man is likely a Quaker
Today's #DailyHogarth is the splendid Inigo Jones
@RMGreenwich 1757 for Sir Ed Littleton, part of a "British worthies" scheme at Teddesley Park. H's pic is based on famous print by Bob van Voerst 1630-36 this version @NPGLondon after Sir Tony van Dyck's drawing @ChatsworthHouse
Today's #DailyHogarth 2 red chalk drawings from the fab @MorganLibrary in NYC. Left, the complete composition for Paul Before Felix @lincolnsinn right, study for Roman soldier in Ascension Altarpiece @bristolmuseum Explore their wonderful collections here👇https://t.co/LiLfdKFTZv
On #GoodFriday our #DailyHogarth is 'The Three Marys at the Sepulchre' from H's Ascension Altarpiece for @stmaryredcliffe now @bristolmuseum 1755-6, a monumental triptych 52ft in width. The crosses are seen in the distance, while an angel says "He is not here" & points heavenward
In Holy Week #DailyHogarth will focus on H's biblical subjects. Today is the fab sketch @mcrartgallery for The Pool of Bethesda @BHAandM @BartsHospital c.1734-5 pendant to Good Samaritan. Here Jesus addresses the lame man saying 'wilt thou be made whole.'👇https://t.co/0LEWDiCFU9
Today's #DailyHogarth in hon of our fab #NHS is The Good Samaritan 1736 @BHAandM (nr H's birthplace) his 1st foray into grand history painting, in emulation of his hero & father-in-law Sir James Thornhill (cupola @StPaulsLondon & Grt Hall @orncgreenwich).👇https://t.co/VTFm5dd4yL
1st Sunday #DailyHogarth is the wonderful portrait of Thomas Herring, Archbish of York & then Canterbury @Tate painted 1744 reworked 1747. It was not a success w/ Herring declaring ‘None of my friends can bear Hogarth's picture’.🤔Idiots! Those sleeves!!👇
https://t.co/YvEx3uR2Fh
Today's #DailyHogarth is for locked-down urbanites. The Fishing Party is a type of group portrait in little or "conversation" thru which H 1st gained fame as a painter. This fab pic @DulwichGallery is dated c.1731-3 ie the same period as Harlot's Progress👇https://t.co/aJFVfUTw79
Many thanks to the wonderful @fairfax_house team & audience for a brilliant #Stuart evening. Really enjoyed meeting @AmpleforthColl sixth formers (my red Doc Martens were a hit). So were the Fairfaxes #Jacobites ? Visit their exquisite house & find out ... https://t.co/GGG4AG2TOy
@sarahmurden @RCT And a brilliant history painter too. Behold the wonderful ‘Watson and the Shark’ (1778) @ngadc and ‘The Death of Major Peirson’ (1783) @Tate