William Hogarth

William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26,1764) was a major British painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to Comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects.” Much of his work poked humorous, at times vicious, fun at contemporary politics and customs.

See also

• English school of painting
• List of British painters
• British Art
• Hogarth's House