Painter and his Pug
The Painter and his Pug[1] is a 1745 self-portrait created by William Hogarth featuring his pug dog, Trump. He began the portrait a decade earlier. The portrait was originally created with the intention of Hogarth wearing formal attire, but was changed to the informal attire sometime during the painting process.[2]
In the portrait, Hogarth himself is in a painting as the pug is alongside him, making Trump "real" as opposed to the created person.[3] The dog is indifferent to the painting, to the books and to the painting palette (which shows Hogarth's Line of Beauty). So the painting seems to be a Vanitas still life. But, as an ironic disruption, the cloth behind the dog comes out of the painting.
The painting is part of the collections of the Tate Gallery.
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- List of works
- Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (1721)
- The Bad Taste of the Town (1724)
- A Just View of the British Stage (1724)
- Before and After (1736)
- The Company of Undertakers (1736)
- Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738)
- The Distrest Poet (1741)
- The Enraged Musician (1741)
- Characters and Caricaturas (1743)
- Industry and Idleness (1747)
- Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751)
- The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751)
- Columbus Breaking the Egg (1752)
- Satire on False Perspective (1754)
- Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1761)
- Five Orders of Periwigs (1761)
- John Wilkes Esq. (1763)
- The Assembly at Wanstead House (c. 1728–1732)
- Before and After (1730–31)
- A Harlot's Progress (1731)
- A Rake's Progress (1732–33, The Tavern Scene)
- Scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest (c.1735)
- Four Times of the Day (1736)
- The Distrest Poet (1736)
- The Shrimp Girl (c.1740)
- Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1740)
- Taste in High Life (1742)
- The Graham Children (1742)
- Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin (1745)
- David Garrick as Richard III (1745)
- Painter and his Pug (1745)
- The Gate of Calais (1748)
- Hogarth's Servants (c.1750)
- The March of the Guards to Finchley (1750)
- Humours of an Election (1755)
- Sealing the Tomb (1755)
- Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse (1757)
- The Bench (1758)
- The Lady's Last Stake (1759)
- Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo (1759)
Marriage A-la-Mode (1745) |
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- The Analysis of Beauty (1753)
- Trump
- Sarah Malcolm
- Hogarth Club
- Mary Edwards (Patron)
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