3-053-467 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hogarth's House at Chiswick, 1873. 'William Hogarth...the truthful English artist of the last century,...painted the common life and manners of his countrymen...The painter of "Marriage à la Mode," of "The Rake's Progress," and of "The Two Apprentices," he who did more than a dozen bishops of that day for the cause of true religion and morality, and for the cause of patriotism as much as Lord Chatham, is not yet forgotten...William Hogarth, it is well known, was a thorough Londoner, born in St. Bartholomew's parish in 1697, and bred in the City; he usually dwelt, when he had grown prosperous and famous, in Leicester-fields, near Sir Joshua Reynolds, and near Captain Coram, the benevolent founder of the Foundling, whose portrait Hogarth loved to draw, for he loved the noble charity of that tender-hearted English sailor. But Hogarth had bought a small house at Chiswick in 1750, and here he used to spend the summer months; he remained here during a greater part of the year as his life declined, and retirement became more congenial to him; here, too, he met the engravers who came to retouch his favourite plates...His tomb is in the old churchyard of Chiswick...His widow lived on, twenty-five years after him, in the little house at Chiswick'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.