Word: coram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's show supported a conclusion that time and later critics reached long ago: besides being one of the most biting social satirists and moralists who ever etched an engraving, Hogarth at his best could paint circles around most of his contemporaries. His portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, philanthropist-founder of London's Foundling Hospital, displays a British humor and humanity that Hogarth's two famous 18th Century successors, Gainsborough and Reynolds, too often sacrificed for a slick and fawning elegance. His March of the Guards Towards Scotland, an action-filled canvas of the departure...