His religious works include the poorly-received Good Samaritan and The Pool of Bethesda, but he had better success with portraits, such as his full- length Captain Thomas Coram.
His religious works include the poorly-received Good Samaritan and The Pool of Bethesda, but he had better success with portraits, such as his full- length Captain Thomas Coram. In a self-portrait, he included his pug dog Trump, and inscribed his palette with the "line of beauty," a concept discussed in his treatise The Analysis of Beauty. He produced a set of engravings for Butler's Hudibras, and sets with characters such as Dr. Misaubin, who fails to cure Moll Hackabout's syphilis in one series and diagnoses Viscount Squanderfield in another. FTP, name this creator of A Harlot's Progress and Marriage à la Mode.
His religious works include the poorly-received Good Samaritan and The Pool of Bethesda, but he had better success with portraits, such as his full- length Captain Thomas Coram.
William {Hogarth}