Portret van William Hogarth
Om værket
Med museets ord — på nederlandsk
Hogarth werkt aan zijn schilderij 'The Comic Muse'. Tegen de ezel staat Hogarths werk 'The Analysis of Beauty'.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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- RP-P-2021-10805
Imens i livet hos William Hogarth
Hele livet1712–1764 · Virkested
London
25 – 26 October 1764
His last day in Leicester Fields
On 25 October 1764 Hogarth, weak but cheerful, was taken from his villa in Chiswick to his home in Leicester Fields; he was still working, retouching “The Bench”. On 26 October he received a letter from Benjamin Franklin and drafted a reply; he boasted of eating a pound of beefsteaks for dinner, and that night, after suddenly vomiting, died in the arms of his servant Mary Lewis; John Nichols named an aneurysm as the cause, Horace Walpole “a dropsy of his breast”.
26. oktober 1764
Died
