The Brewer’s Art exhibition at Hogarth’s House has attracted great interest and will now run until 2 December 2012, admission free. The House is open Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon to 5pm.
Work on the Dining Room ceiling is progressing – the new lime and hair plaster, installed after the fire, has been affected by the sheer weight of visitor numbers and is being replaced. This room remains closed for the time being, but should re-open about the time the exhibition closes.
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.
