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William Hogarth

1697 - 1764

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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hogarth has received more than 1,768,974 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). William Hogarth is the 167th most popular painter (down from 154th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 337th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Painter.

William Hogarth is most famous for his series of paintings called the "Rake's Progress" which is a series of paintings that show the story of a young man who spends his life drinking, gambling, and womanizing.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, William Hogarth ranks 167 out of 2,023. Before him are Gentile Bellini, Jacob van Ruisdael, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Théodore Rousseau, Hilma af Klint, and Edward Hopper. After him are Chaim Soutine, Niko Pirosmani, Gustave Caillebotte, Maurice Utrillo, Niccolò dell'Abbate, and James Ensor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, William Hogarth ranks 3. Before him are Canaletto, and Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Johann Joachim Quantz, Jean-Marie Leclair, Antoine François Prévost, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mahmud Hotak, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, Faustina Bordoni, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Nicola Salvi. Among people deceased in 1764, William Hogarth ranks 4. Before him are Madame de Pompadour, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Ivan VI of Russia. After him are Christian Goldbach, Pietro Locatelli, Johann Mattheson, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Erik Pontoppidan, Francesco Algarotti, and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hogarth ranks 332 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander Selkirk (1676), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), Robbie Coltrane (1950), Halford Mackinder (1861), Graham Greene (1904), and Morrissey (1959). After him are John Galsworthy (1867), William Petty (1623), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Norman Haworth (1883), Margaret Tudor (1489), and Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, William Hogarth ranks 3. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), and John Constable (1776). After him are John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Richard Hamilton (1922).

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