William Hogarth: The Rise and Fall of a Phizmonger (Part 2)

How did William Hogarth help create the modern art world as we know it?  Did he really stage the first conceptual art exhibition?  And why in the final years of his life was he the subject of ridicule? Join Alastair and James as they chart the life and times of the man that helped transform the story of British art.

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Artworks in this episode:

William Hogarth, O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748, Tate Britain, London

Canaletto, London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge, 1747, Private Collection

Jean Siméon Chardin, The Ray, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Jean Siméon Chardin, Still-Life with Cuts of Meat, 1730, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux

Anthony van Dyck, Lord John Stuart and His Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, c.1638, National Gallery, London

William Hogarth, George Arnold, 1738-40, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

William Hogarth, Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants, c.1750-55, Tate Britain, London

William Hogarth, Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, c.1740, The Foundling Museum, London

William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: Plates 1-6, 1743, National Gallery, London