Koor van zingende mannen
À propos de l’œuvre
Selon le musée — en néerlandais
Tekst in het Engels op de papieren met bladmuziek. De heren repeteren 'Judith' door William Huggins met muziek door William Defesch dat werd uitgevoerd op 16 februari 1732.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- RP-P-OB-18.716
Pendant ce temps, chez William Hogarth
La vie entièrechildhood
A poor family and his father’s debtors’ prison
William was born in Bartholomew Close in London, the first surviving child of the poor Latin teacher Richard Hogarth and Anne Gibbons; his father’s scheme of a Latin-speaking coffee house failed and he spent five years in the Fleet debtors’ prison, while the boy had to sell folk remedies his mother prepared. He disliked school but drew tirelessly, sketching street scenes and the characters of London’s fairs, and never spoke of his father’s imprisonment.
1712–1764 · Lieu de travail
London
1713
Apprentice to the engraver Ellis Gamble
In 1713, without finishing primary school, Hogarth became an apprentice to the silver engraver Ellis Gamble in Leicester Fields, where he learned engraving and metalwork, trade cards and similar wares, and first met the Rococo style. He never completed the apprenticeship.
1718
His father’s death: Hogarth supports his mother and sisters
In 1718 his father died, and William, the eldest child, had to support his mother and two sisters by taking small commissions — commercial visiting cards, small coats of arms and other trifles. He found the work stupid and dull: he longed for high art, and above all for graphic art.
until April 1720
His own engraving workshop
By April 1720 Hogarth was an engraver in his own right: he opened a small workshop, at first engraving coats of arms and shop bills and designing plates for booksellers.
