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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear’s two plays following the life of William Hogarth There is a palpable irony to the umbrella title of Nick Dear’s two plays ...

William Hogarth’s sketching habit did not go down well in France, where it led to his arrest for spying. He was only released after he managed to prove he was an artist by drawing several disobliging ...

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 ...

The English painter and satirist depicts a vision of vibrant cacophony that resonates more than two centuries later in the Brexit era In this print from 1741, the professional violinist covers his ...

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 ...