Paintings adorning grand staircase of St Bartholomew’s to benefit from £5m lottery heritage fund grant Two paintings by William Hogarth on the walls of a grand staircase at St Bartholomew’s hospital ...

This invigorating exhibition shows how the artist’s appetite for life bursts off the canvas and makes you see, hear and smell his time – don’t miss the soldier pissing against a wall or the one ...

With subjects ranged from political corruption to loveless marriages, drunkenness to sexually transmitted diseases, Hogarth delighted and disgusted his 18th century contemporaries with some of the ...

LONDON — William Hogarth is best known for his moralizing satires of British pretension, such as his painting sequences A Rake’s Progress (1732–34) or Marriage a la Mode (1743), and for his xenophobic ...

His most famous satires are often seen as part Shakespeare comedy, part Carry On film. But Tate Britain’s Hogarth and Europe exhibition shows the artist was no Little Englander In one of his most ...

It seems an odd thing to say, but everything that William Hogarth despised is what we love him for most. In the noisome London of the 18th century artist, criminals swing at Tyburn, horses are flayed ...

Massachusetts’s Worcester Art Museum (WAM) is unveiling two newly restored William Hogarth (1697–1764) pendant portraits, the first paintings by the artist owned by an American museum, in the latest ...

A syphilitic prostitute dying in squalor; a libertine violently insane in an infamous madhouse; an old drunk sits on a set of steps, seemingly oblivious of her exposed bosom, as her child tumbles over ...

Paintings and engravings by one of Britain’s best-known artists are to be displayed in a new exhibition exploring their links with an infamous uprising. Works by the renowned 18th-century artist, ...

The artist’s portrait of the Georgian era’s richest woman is part of a new London show An independent aristocrat, Mary Edwards of Kensington was a leading figure in 18 th-century London. She was also ...