William Hogarth Trust
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Happy Birthday Mr Hogarth!

The William Hogarth Trust will be placing the usual wreath of autumn flowers at the foot of Hogarth’s statue in Chiswick High Road at noon on 10 November 2012. 

Hogarth was born in Smithfield in 1697, 315 years ago. He acquired his second home in Chiswick in 1749 close to several of his friends’ homes. He worked on some of his printing plates in his studio at the bottom of the garden on his last day in Chiswick. Feeling unwell, he went back to his home in Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square) and died overnight, tended by his wife’s cousin, Mary Lewis, on 25/26 October 1764.

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