What kind of artist was william hogarth

Hogarth is best known for his series paintings of ‘modern moral subjects’, of which he sold engravings on subscription. The Collection contains the set called ‘Marriage A-la-Mode’. Although pugnaciously hostile to Continental art, he succumbed to French influence.

Like his great predecessor, the 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hogarth wanted to extract entertaining and instructive incidents from life.