{"id":36,"date":"2010-10-19T19:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2024-07-25T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:06:53","slug":"hogarth-and-chiswick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"Hogarth and Chiswick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hogarth's view of his House across Chiswick Common Field<\/p><\/div>\n

Hogarth and his family took on a three-storey brick house on the western edge of Chiswick Town in 1749. This was their country refuge, a weekend and summer home, away from the noise of Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square). Some of Hogarth’s friends and contacts lived nearby – Thomas Morrell, an antiquarian whop was Handel’s librettist, James Ralph, the American political writer and dramatist, and Joshua Kirby, tutor in perspective to the royal children at Kew.<\/p>\n

The Hogarths extended the house and enjoyed the fruit trees and nut walk in the walled garden – the mulberry can still be seen. Pets were buried in one corner and Hogarth had a ‘painting room’ at the bottom of the garden where he was working until a few days before his death.<\/p>\n

Hogarth’s widow, Jane kept on the house and ran the print-selling business after his death in 1764. She bequeathed it to her cousin, Mary Lewis, who had helped run the business. Mary survived until 1808.<\/p>\n

The family tomb, with an epitaph to Hogarth written by his great friend David Garrick, the actor, is in St Nicholas’ Churchyard, a short walk from the House. Most of the Hogarths’ relatives who lived in Chiswick are buried there too.<\/p>\n

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To find out more about Chiswick’s history, go to the Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society’s web site<\/a> or follow our trail “In Georgian Footsteps”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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