Brief biography of Hogart

Pictures of the biography of William Hoart were called the master of satire and the creator of unusual types of art. This is an outstanding English artist who, with the help of a brush and canvas, tried to educate morality in society. Throughout his life, he made a huge contribution to the English graphics and painting of the XVIII century, and throughout the world he left behind a certain trace.

Childhood and youth Hogart was born in London in the fall of the year. The boy was brought up with two sisters. The parents of the future painter were poor people. The mother was engaged in the manufacture of medicines from the healing herbs, which she then sold, and the father worked as a teacher, and worked as a translation of texts from Latin. The first creative steps in William's biography appeared early, he loved to draw from an early age.

He was not given school subjects, he did not like to go to lessons, if there was no drawing on this day. Hogart went to work early: the boy’s father owed a lot of money, and in order to survive at least somehow, young William was forced to serve with the silver affairs of the master. The hard work was fruit, as an assistant master, the young man learned about the features of the Rococo style, learned to work with metal and make engravings.

And when his father died, he completely became the only breadwinner of the family. Personal life as a student of the Tornhill school, in the year Hogart met his daughter Jane. At that time, the girl was 15 years old.

Over the next five years, the personal life of young people has developed. At the same time, William understood that the father of the chosen one would not agree to their marriage, since the artist was too poor for his daughter. When Jane was 20 years old, she officially became William's wife, in love held a secret ceremony of wedding. After some time, the girl’s father found out about this, but reconciled only when the son -in -law managed to correct the welfare and achieve a certain recognition in the circles of artists.

Painting the work of a student of an engraver did not bring Hogart a lot of money, and did not like it too much. To become an independent master, he began to periodically attend lessons in private art academies. At 23, the young man managed to open his own workshop, where he began to print engravings, even then they had satirical content. William did not stop at the first purpose.

To become a professional painter, he entered the school of the court artist James Thornhill. The gained ability to create engravings helped Hogart to quickly master the basics of painting. Already in the middle of the x, he became an illustrator and began working on books, including Samuel Batler’s poem “Gudibra”. A couple of years after that, based on John Gaia's play “The Opera of the Right”, he created the first picture.

And at the end of the x, the list of his works was replenished with portraits of English families, these were group images. In subsequent years, the painter’s work has gained great popularity. The engravings of the artist covered a specific problem in different layers of creativity. Often a man created paintings in paintings, these were a series of images telling a whole story.

These include the works of Hoggart “Career of the prostitute”, “Fashion marriage”, “Elections to parliament”, “Four stages of cruelty” and others. In the year, he painted the painting “Children of the Graham family”, which was ordered to him by the hospital doctor in Chelsea, who partly worked as a royal pharmacist. In m, he portrayed himself, calling the work "The artist's self -portrait with his pug." And in M ​​the creator published the book “Analysis of Beauty”, in which he shared the theory of art with professional artists and all admirers of beauty.

The most important achievement of Hoart was the post of the main court painter, which he received in the year, replacing James Thornhill's father -in -law in this position. The death of Hoart's life ended in the year in his hometown of London. The cause of death is unknown. At that time, a photo or portrait of the deceased was not posted on the tombstone, as is accepted now.

Instead, the artist’s burial place is decorated with a massive column, which is separated by a black metal fence from other graves.