Furry Fridays is back! 🐶

This week we feature the furry friend that is the spaniel in ‘Before’ and ‘After’ by

Protecting his owner at all times!

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Stuck for something to do today?

Here is The Fishing Party - possibly Lady Sunderland and her Son John Sutton 🐟

This version was painted over a more reduced earlier piece and has been reworked many times.

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Our Director Caro Howell talked to about William Hogarth’s portrait of Thomas Coram. See the full video at https://t.co/769G78ANDj

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Charity in the Cellar painted by (left) and drawn by Richard Livesay after Hogarth (right).

The group vowed not to leave until they had drunk a hogshead of claret. While it seems they are mimicking the sculpted statue on the far right!

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Details from Hogarth's Gin Lane - which you can see up close at our next week! https://t.co/Wsp9vOvDEd

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James Gillray followed Hogarth with Prime Minister Pitt as the Devil, Queen Charlotte as Sin and Lord Chancellor Thurlow as Satan. Dorothy George said the "outrageous representation of the Queen, is said to have given great offence at Court", see https://t.co/NlnfTlbg0x.

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Hello twitter, here are some portraits of Ordinary Folk. Because, as sparkly as they are, History is not all about Rich People.

– watercress seller (1780)
– kitchen servant at Oxford (c1680s)
– [believed to be] Washington's enslaved cook (c1795)
– Hogarth's servants (1750s)

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The Pool of Bethesda which forms part of the staircase decoration of Bartholomew Hospital. It sits alongside The Good Samaritan, reflecting the hospital's caring for the sick.

The people seen at the Pool are said to be modelled on real patients!

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It’s National Puppy Day! Hogarth loved to paint dogs in his paintings, including pugs. Here are some cute pups by

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The Mackinen Children - William and Elizabeth.

The sunflower is a symbol of loyalty - it always faces toward the sun, the anomaly here - the other flowers behind are turning away from the main one.

Symbols of honouring both political sides?

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A self portrait of William Hogarth from March 1758 seated at his work, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor beside the chair.

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The chatelaine attached to Mary Edwards’ waist has a couple of interpretations:

1. Carries keys and tools necessary for a woman managing her own household.

2. The watch may be a ‘memento mori’ recognising her approaching death!

Thoughts?

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Hogarth making a joke about the craze for tiny lapdogs by including a minuscule one on an expensive cushion in Taste in High Life.

A craze that is very much still around!

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Possibly a trend going on here 🤔

Simone Pignoni, John Smith, and William Hogarth opting to represent their sitters holding a lamb representing the saint St.Agnes 🐑

She stood up to those telling her who to marry, and stuck by her chosen ‘husband’ Jesus Christ.

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The clergyman with the telescope is guessed to be Horace Walpole, his chair being pushed over by Stephen Fox. Walpole was a and lecturer on optics.

However he had no known connections with this group, so the identification is still debatable!

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The Good Samaritan - the second of Hogarth’s canvases for St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The bearded Samaritan pours healing ointments onto the wounded and robbed Israelite 🙏🏻

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Il pittore inglese William Hogarth era un autentico burlone.

Troviamo sempre, nelle sue opere, dettagli sorprendenti attraverso cui l'artista scherza con noi.

Guardate le strane statuette sopra il camino in questa tela del 1743.

Sembrano dipinte da un bambino!

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Portrait of Jane Thornhill who Hogarth met as the daughter of his teacher Sir James Thornhill. He eloped with Jane and married, but did not have any children together.

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