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Hogarth was now an artist of high repute, both as a
painter and satirist. As a portrait-painter "his own likeness '*
in this collection, and that of "Captain Coram "" in the Found-
ling Hospital, are capital specimens of his ability; of his
moralizing, satirical capacity, and his abilities as a painter
generally, the Marriage "^ la Mode'' affords adequate proof

In 1753 Hogarth appeared as an author; he published in
that year " The Analysis of Beauty, written with a view of
filing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste,''* in the literary de-
partment of which he was assisted by Dr. Benjamin Hoadley
and Dr. MorelL In 1767 Hogarth was appointed Serjeant
Painter to the King, in the place of Mr., the son of Sir
James, Thomhill, who resigned. He died at his house in
Leicester-fields, October 26, 1764, aged sixty-seven, and was
buried in a vault at Chiswick, where he had a villa, and
where he generally resided iu the summer. His widow
survived hun twenty-five years.-f

"Hogarth," says Walpole, "had no model to follow, and
improve upon. He created his art, and used colours instead
of language. His place is between the Italians, whom we
may consider as epic poets and tragedians, and the Flemish
painters, who are as writers of farce, and editors of burlesque
nature."

" Hogarth resembles Butler ; but his subjects are more
universal, and amidst all his pleasantry, he- observes the
true end of comedy — Reformation. There is always a moral
to his pictures. Sometimes he rose to tragedy, not in the
catastrophe of kings and heroes, but in marking how vice
conducts insensibly and incidentally to misery and shame.
