William Hogarth

William Hogarth

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. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hogarth has received more than 1,566,797 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). William Hogarth is the 153rd most popular painter (up from 230th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 517th 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.