HOG

See Pia Famity. Eng, artist and engraver; b. London; s. y of a schoolmaster; apprenticed to an engraver, and later set up in that calling on his own account; m. Jane, d. of Sir James Thorn hill; achieved his first artistic succe with his series of six paintings representing The Harlot’s Progre , 1731, shortly afterwards engraved by himself. This series was followed by eight scenes depicting The Rake’s Progre , 1735; Marriage a la Mode, Industry and Idlene , The Stage Coach, The March to Finchley, portraits of Garrick, Lavinia Fenton, scriptural pieces, etc. H. achieved immediate succe with his engravings, but his original paintings found little appreciation in his own day, and many remained unsold at the time of his death. In portraiture he was more succe ful. H. is now recognised as one of the great Eng. artists. His purpose, in his more famous series, was to paint a story dramatically in a set of scenes, and the best of these are at once remarkable for realism and masterly humour, for H. was not only great as an artist, but equally so as a poet, known as ‘the Httrick Shepherd’; herded cattle and sheep in his youth; made disastrous ventures in farming; pub. Scottish Pastorals, 1801; The Mountain Bard, 1807; The Queen's Wake, 1813—his best work in poetry. Other writings include collections of tales, and a treatise on diseases of sheep. (1792-1863), Eng. author; was the Oxford a ociate and subsequent biographer of Shelley.