Word: hogarth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standards of old families. Obviously if art was ever to find a place in England it had to be taken up and encouraged by the influential classes. Had Sir Joshua never lived, it is improbable that Gainsborough or Romney would have led the people to demand more than Hogarth's prints; for combined with the highest artistic taste, he possessed all the qualifications of a man of letters...
...Godfrey Kneller was the first English portrait painter to achieve a great reputation. He left behind him a substantial fortune and five hundred unfinished portraits. Grace rather than likeness characterized his work. William Hogarth succeeded Kneller. He was at first an apprentice to a silver-smith and then an engraver. In 1727, then in his thirtieth year, he painted his first portrait. He became famous by his satirical representations of vice and folly. His picture, Marriage a la Mode, which now hangs in the National Gallery is his masterpiece...
Perhaps no work of Hogarth's is more worthy of praise than his earnest efforts in forming an organization of artists, which grew into the present Royal Academy...