Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-14
H0GARTH.

hogaTth was born in the parish OF A. No,
TN, Ludgate, London, in 1897 or 1895, and
died at his house in Leicester Fields in 1854
ms name requires no panegyrie Il has been
universally univ recognised as that Of great NOR
a!ist tor II the pencil may claim equally
WI n the pen, the privilege 10 convey instrue,
i've truths, then the works of the teacher
VII, continue, so long as they endure vivid
hh1 arSumentativo exponepts Of good and
e'h 90 powerfully expressed too, that, in
mem, virtue may trace the pathway 10 han
Piuess' whiie vice and folly must shrink
ao"snee a rom the mirror which reflects their
depraVIty and exhibits their deUradatior
We are not alludiDg to productions such s.
.hat before us but 20 thOse-yonderfuI hotb
In composition and execution-op which nj
IehO"n Is based, and which are too well
known 70 require especial description.
Inc artlst-mlnd Of Hogarth was truly ori.
sthHi' DeIore MIN, either in our own country
-. esmnere' lnere were none who permitted
lts tendency to have such undisputed sway
All great painters have wooed Nature b1t
'he majority OF them Ia her most beautiful
vi loVing' or graceful forms others in loyly
som etlmes unsttrsctive, and not unfrequentiy
de0asng aspects; but Hogarth diyed into her
deepest and most gloomy recesses, where
Morailty sits weeping over the orgies Of ini-
quity, drawing forth from "caverns Of all
unrghteOusness, pictures which startled
mankind by their living verify, and rebuked
tnem by the exhibition Of the low estate into
"nlcn humanity may sink when following
without restraint the devices and imaginations
u a corrupted heart. What the writings of
-hSop, Juvenal, and Horace exposed TO the
ancients, to pencil of Hogarth has shadowed
iVr'h 10 US; those who discover in his works
the carIcaturiSt alone are ignorant of their
hIshest purpose. DIR. Waagen, the distiu-
Sulshed Serman writer on Art, saws. in aIlu-
sion TO Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode,
" nat surprises me ID the eminent merit OF
these works as paintings. All the most deli
cate shades Of his humer are here marked in
his heads with cOnsummate skill and freedom
anu every other part executed with the same
ueclslon, and Tor the most part with care
The portraits be painted are scarcely known.
tnougn had he produced nothing more than
these, his name would not have been lost 10
posterlty, tor they possess great merit: indeed
ne met with very considerable success when
he hrst took the house in Leicester Fields. and
commenced portraiture, but it could scarcely
DC expected that one who sometimes made
courtIers and high born danes the subjects of
his satire, would be permitted TO portray them
as they desire to be represented; moreover.
such Dor but I'LL accorded with his genius
ana tastes, aud he snly practised is occasion
any while even then, as in the united nor
traitsof" Garrick and his Wi I" some CLEANS
OF has natural humsr would break forth I'm
this picture Garrick is seated at his writing
table; Mrs. Garrick has apparently entered
the room unobserved. and is about TO snatch
the pen from the hand Of her husband, while
the latter Is In reverie; he is writing his
Prologue to Taste" The idea seems 10 be
borrowed from Vanloo's picture Of - Colley
Cibber and his Daughter" painted in I74o.
and engraved by Z. Fisher, in i75S. Hogarth's
picture has been twice exhibited at the British
Institution, once in 1874, and also in 1853
Mrs Garrick was the daughter Of respectable
citizen Of Vienna, and was engaged as a
dancer at Drury Lane Theatre in 1746; three
years afterwards she was married q her hus-
band, whom she survived upwards Of forty
three years. In 1929, the year after her deash,
this picture was sold, at the sale Of her effects.
to the late Edward Hawke Locker, ESQ, one
OF the commissioners of Greenwich HospitaI.
tor the sum Of SIS lis; this gentleman, how.
ever, reinquished it to George ~ , who added
1t to the collection at Windsor, where Ii now
hangs Journal.