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William Hogarth
Martin Folkes Esqr.
London, William Hogarth c. 1745
Copper engraving
340x240mm
£180

SKU: 7191 Category: William Hogarth
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William Hogarth – Martin Folkes Esqr.

A fine half-length portrait of the numismatist, mathematician, dilettante, and antiquary Martin Folkes (1690-1754).

Elected a member of the Royal Society aged twenty-four, he became Vice President on the nomination of Sir Isaac Newton in 1723.

He subsequently became President in 1741after Sir Hans Sloane retired and was also President of the Society of Antiquaries from 1750 until his death.

A fellow Governor of the Foundling Hospital with Hogarth, Folkes was notorious for his ‘irreligious attitudes’ and was criticised by his enemies for making the Royal Society a laughingstock by allowing ‘trifling and puerile papers’ mainly on antiquarian topics.

Folkes presented this painting to the Royal Society in 1742.

In this portrait Hogarth shows Folkes sitting slightly obliquely to the left, right hand raised with pointing finger and wearing an unbuttoned coat and waistcoat, and long curled wig.

His broad fleshy face and thick lips hint at Folkes’ dissipated reputation and irregular private life.  Paulson 154 IV/IV.

William Hogarth

William Hogarth, (born November 10, 1697, London, England—died October 26, 1764, London), the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad, best known for his MORAL and satirical engravings and paintings—e.g., A Rake’s Progress (eight scenes,1733). His attempts to build a reputation as a history painter and portraitist, however, met with financial disappointment, and his aesthetic theories had more influence in Romantic literature than in painting.

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