William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: The Tête à Tête 1735. © The National Gallery, London

LONDON, ENGLAND.- The most comprehensive exhibition for over thirty years of the leading eighteenth-century artist, William Hogarth (1697–1764), just opened at Tate Britain. No other artist’s work has come to define a period of British history as powerfully and enduringly as that of Hogarth. He was greatly admired and collected on the international stage, influencing a broad range of artists across the centuries, including Greuze, Goya, the Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler and Hockney. The exhibition incorporates the full range of Hogarth’s work, highlighting his unique contribution to the development of modern British art. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)

William Hogarth, O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’) 1748. Tate. Presented by the Duke of Westminster, 1895.