Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)Ireland, John
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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)
Ireland, John
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Hogarth concludes with a remark, which intimates that he had
originally intended to have inserted the preceding chapter in his
_Analysis_, but altered his plan and reserved it for his intended
Supplement:--
"The even and uniform colour of the hair, by encompassing the
face as a frame doth a picture, contrasts with harmonious
colour its variegated and enclosed composition, and adds more
or less beauty thereto, according to the manner it is disposed.
This graceful ornament may, with some propriety, be called the
head-dress, and comes under that class; but as dress in general
is a matter of no small importance to a great part of the world,
it deserves to be treated more copiously than this volume will
admit of. It shall therefore be deferred till a more convenient
opportunity offers, when the Supplement shall be published."
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CHAPTER V.
HOGARTH'S INDUCEMENT TO PAINTING THE PICTURE OF SIGISMUNDA. HIS
CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD GROSVENOR ON THIS SUBJECT, CONTRASTED
BY TWO LETTERS FROM LORD CHARLEMONT, FOR WHOM HE HAD PREVIOUSLY
PAINTED AN INTERESTING SCENE. ORIGIN OF THE QUARREL WITH WILKES
AND CHURCHILL, WHICH GAVE RISE TO THE PRINT OF THE BEAR, ETC.;
AND THE ARTIST'S DEATH.
The particulars relative to the picture of "Sigismunda," Hogarth
has himself inserted in his subscription-book, on the leaves of
which he has pasted his correspondence with Lord Charlemont and Lord
Grosvenor, and a proof print of MacArdell's copy from Correggio's
picture. In a little blue memorandum book he resumes the subject, and
concludes with a narrative of his quarrel with Wilkes and Churchill,
which ends with the word _Finis_.
In these and some other loose papers, after having stated the
professional injury which he had sustained from his opponents
asserting, and the public believing, that he could not paint
portraits, he continues:--
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