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Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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spital, Martin Folkes at theRoyal Society, and Lord Lovat at the NationalPortrait Gallery are fine examples of his art. Heis also well represented at the National Gallery byportraits of Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum, ofhis sister, Mary Hogarth, and of himself and thefamily group of the Strodes, as well as in the in-comparable Marriage a la Mode. He was proud ofhis success and said : for the portrait of Garrick Ireceived more than any English artist ever beforereceived for a single portrait (^400). When Hogarth published his print of TheTimes he offended an old acquaintance—thenotorious John Wilkes, who made a savage attackon the painter in the North Briton (No. 17,Sept. 25th, 1762). In this article Wilkes madeassertions which he must have known to be untrue ;for instance, how monstrously false was the follow-ing passage : After Marriage a la Mode thepublic wished for a series of prints of a happymarriage. Hogarth made the attempt but therancour and malevolence of his mind made him
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WILLIAM HOGARTH, BY HIMSELF. FROM HOGARTH TO MILLAIS 61 very soon turn with envy and disgust from objectsof so pleasing contemplation to dwell and feast onothers of a hateful cast, which he pursued, for hefound them more congenial with the most unabait-ing zeal and unrelenting gall. Churchill followedwith An Epistle to William Hogarth, but theattackers had little cause to congratulate them-selves. Hogarth was hard hit and he felt thecruel words severely, but he had a bitter revenge.Comparatively few read Churchill, and scarcelyanyone reads the pages of the North Briton, buteveryone knows Hogarths portraits of Wilkes andChurchill, and the reputations of these two menwill never recover from the blow given by thepublication of their portraits. Wilkes wrote that Hogarths Sigismunda wasnot human, and as the figure was taken from thepainters wife this criticism was particularly dis-tasteful. It will be remembered that HoraceWalpole made some very unflattering remarkson the figure of Sigismu

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