William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic (died 1764)

William Hogarth

English painter, engraver and satirist (1697–1764)

William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress…