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Entries in British Painting (6)

Tuesday
Jun042013

A Marriage Restored

DateTuesday, June 4, 2013 at 11:10AM

William Hogarth - William James and Mrs William James, both 1744 (click photo for larger image)William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an important English artist--who was a highly skilled painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. “Although his portraits of the 18th-century English gentleman and his ‘trophy wife have been popular with visitors to the Worcester Art Museum for more than a century, the paintings have remained in a storeroom for the past five years because of conservation issues.”  Find out how these issues have been addressed and who is responsible here.

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