Paintings of the British Social Scene from Hogarth to Sickert

By E.D.H. Johnson

British painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries portrays the life of the times with remarkable fidelity. Leading artists devoted themselves to mirroring with unique charm and accuracy the changing tastes and concerns of their age, and their work provides a record of social change within a continuing tradition unparalleled in the art of other countries. Hogarth was the founder of British genre painting and perhaps its most caustic exponent, combining stark realism with high comedy in his comprehensive exposure of the follies and vices of Georgian London.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847807126
• ISBN13: 9780847807123
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 3.62 lbs.