The Awakening Conscience William Holman Hunt

Honoré Daumier Marseille

Gargantua Honoré Daumier

The Plum Pudding in Danger James Gillray

During life:

John Collier:

Collier, sometimes known as the Lancashire Hogarth, fashioned his career along the same lines as Hogarth, producing satires and poems of everyday life with strong moral and social values. Like Hogarth, Collier also had numerous etchings reprinted and some were so popular that they were put onto tiles for indoor decorations.



After death:

Pre-Raphaelite:

The Pre-Raphaelite artists of the 19th Century were greatly influenced by the symbolism which Hogarth brought to his work. In work such as William Holman Hunts' The Awakening Conscience, Hogarth's influence is very apparent, with both artists using similar artistic practices to convey a moral message.



Many Pre-Raphaelite painters gained most of their profit from engraved work and cartoons that were reprinted and sold and thanks to Hogarth's work pushing the copyrighting act of 1735 through Parliament, they could earn a good living from it rather than relying on the patronage of the elite as other artists had done before them.



The Pre-Raphaelites also hoped to expand the ways in which the viewer interpreted art and expand an artist's subject matter in order to bring a wider range of issues to public attention. In this respect their work mirrors Hogarth's, as he produced work based on every day observance.



Realism:

Realism is easily detectable in Hogarth's work and the scenes he portrays are often based on real-life events or places and have gritty, sometimes ugly aspects to them. Although such scenes were often exaggerated, people living in the 18th Century would undoubtedly have recognized problems and social vices from their own neighborhoods. As with later realism painters, Hogarth expressed his discern for the plight of people in everyday society, through his works.



In 1931 Honore Daumier published the lithograph Gargantua which depicted King Louis-Philippe of France as a fat, greedy ruler. Daumier was actually imprisoned for publishing this work and although he never cited Hogarth as an inspiration, his work mirrors the satirical and moral justifications which Hogarth included in his prints, almost a hundred years before.



Followers Today:

The Comic Strip:

Hogarth's satirical works were most popular and can be seen as the first form of pop art that went on to inspire James Gillray, the political satirist and cartoonist who emerged in the latter part of the 18th century. Gillray defined the comic strip template more acutely and used the medium to satirize the political situation in England at that time.



The comic strip has become an important part of popular culture, the visual narrative accompanied by small amounts of text helping to make it accessible and comprehensive to all.



By creating a visual and text media such as the cartoon as a form of satire, Hogarth took free speech to a whole new level. Even serious matters could be discussed openly in a humorous way.