A self-portrait of Hogarth painting Thalia, the Comic Muse holding a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. On the pillar to her left is engraved the words "Comedy 1764." Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the ea...
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth 1764
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities), Artists, and British
"Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse, after the painting in the National Portrait Gallery; the artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is ...
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth serjeant painter to His Majesty and William Hogarth serjeant painter to His Majesty
"Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse, after the painting in the National Portrait Gallery; the artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is ...
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth serjeant painter to His Majesty and William Hogarth serjeant painter to His Majesty
Drawing of John Baptist Monnoyer (bap.1636-1699), French-born painter educated in Antwerp, known for his floral interior decorations, fashionable in France in the second half of the 17th century. He moved to England in 1690 where he continued to speci...
Alternative Title:
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Description:
Title based on title of engraving in Anecdotes of painting in England.
John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
The collection consists of seven portrait drawings of noted African Americans and Haitians by the artist Amy Einstein Spingarn. The sitters include scientist George Washington Carver (1935) and authors Langston Hughes (1930), Zora Neale Hurston (circa...
Description:
Amy Einstein Spingarn was born in New York on January 29, 1883, the daughter of American businessman and manufacturer David L. Einstein (1839-1909) and Caroline Fatman Einstein (1852-1910). In 1905 she married Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), a Columb...
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hurston, Zora Neale, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Piquion, René, Schuyler, George S. 1895-1977 (George Samuel),, Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980., and Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975