{"id":30,"date":"2010-10-19T19:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2012-08-07T20:09:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:09:55","slug":"william-hogarth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"William Hogarth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Hogarthselfport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169 alignright\" title=\"self portrait detail\" src=\"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Hogarthselfport-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> William Hogarth (1697-1764) rose<br \/>\nfrom humble beginnings to become a great British painter and engraver and Sergeant Painter to the King.<\/p>\n<p>He hated injustice and used his art to draw attention to the issues he cared about &#8211; poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, cruelty to animals. He also took practical steps to deal with these issues, for example, promoting the first copyright legislation in 1735 and serving as a founder Governor of the Foundling Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In 1752 Hogarth published his theoretical book about art, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=szQGAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=Analysis+of+beauty&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=u9kJTqiPEISohAfS04nqDw&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=1&#038;ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">The Analysis of Beauty.<\/a> His friends and neighbours had helped him with the text. <\/p>\n<p>See<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=36\">Hogarth &amp; Chiswick<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=237\">Sergeant Painter to the King<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=307\">Hogarth&#8217;s House centenary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Hogarth (1697-1764) rose from humble beginnings to become a great British painter and engraver and Sergeant Painter to the King. He hated injustice and used his art to draw attention to the issues he cared about &#8211; poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, cruelty to animals. He also took practical steps to deal with these issues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}