William Hogarth

Who was William Hogarth?

William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

Famous Quotes:

• I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
• All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.