The Painter and his Pug, 1745. Artist: William Hogarth
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The Painter and his Pug, 1745. Artist: William Hogarth
The Painter and his Pug, 1745. The portrait deliberately projects a guide to the way Hogarth wanted others to think of him. The artists painting in informal dress rests on a pile of books labelled (in the finished engraving) Shakespeare, Milton and Swift. William Shakespeare and John Milton were generally acknowledged to be the greatest modern English authors and Jonathan Swift was a vigorous modern satirist. The palette and graver represent Hogarths twin roles as painter and engraver and the Line of Beauty alludes to his favourite art theory. The only living object in the painting is Hogarths pet pug, Trump. Hogarth announces himself as essentially English. He despised the slavish following of foreign models, and believed that art should be based on the imitation of nature, like the work of the great English authors
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