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FILM OF THE DAY: From 1946 the last of producer classic this 1 inspired by art set in notorious mental hospital in with chilling atmosphere & nuanced performances by &

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2022-10-31

"I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labour and diligence."

🎨 English satiric painter and engraver, 26 October 1764.

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2022-10-26

William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress (plate 7), 1735 https://t.co/YqPCggWkat

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2022-07-13

🖼 Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo, her murder'd Husband
👨‍🎨 William Hogarth
⏳ 1759
🎨 Oil on canvas

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2022-06-19

William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress (plate 4), 1735 https://t.co/Y5uscjHBWG

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2022-03-08

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Thomas Matthews Rooke, Hogarth's House, 1896

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2022-01-20

My pix, British artist 1738 'Times of the Day: Morning' 1 from the series, of etchings & engravings on paper of London streets, depicting rich & poor, restraint & excess, nature & artifact Exhibited exhibition Britain London until 20/03/22

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2022-01-12

"The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety."
🎨 English satiric painter and engraver, was 10 November 1697.

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2021-11-10

"The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety."
🎨  English painter and engraver, 26 October 1764.

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2021-10-26

"I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show." Painter and satirist was born 1697.

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2020-11-10

It’s National Dog Day! I hope all of you dog owners pamper your pooch extravagantly 🐶

Here is Hogarth’s dog. Held by the Tate gallery "Hogarth's pug dog, Trump, serves as an emblem of the artist's own pugnacious character."

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2018-08-26

today with the lovely spaniel in the back of ‘Girl with a Birdcage, said to be of the Stamford Family’ by

Possibly painted as a memorial to a deceased child - her pale complexion and handkerchief wrapped round her neck. 👼🏻

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2018-07-13

HRH William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as a Boy. (1732)

The youngest and favourite son of George II and Queen Caroline, painted in Hogarth’s nearly successful effort to gain the favour of the royal family 👸🏻🤴🏻

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2018-06-18

Happy weekend!
Left: The Rake at Oxford, or A Consultation of Physicians (sketch) which could be an abandoned first thought for the opening scene of A Rake’s Progress.

Right: The official plate 1 of A Rake’s Progress by

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2018-06-09