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Opens plate-engraving business
Worked first as an apprentice in a silver workshop where he learnt the skill of engraving metal. He opened his own business seven years later (1720) -
Married Jane Thornhill
He took painting lessons at Sir James Thornhill's art academy, and ended up marrying his daughter. While studying and working at the academy, he made a series of illustrations for Butler's Hudibras, and engravings of theatrical shows, often with a touch of satire -
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Hogarth makes his reputation
The Rake's Progress
He became well-known and very successful for his two 'modern moral series ' of paintings: A Harlot 's Progress, 1732, and A Rake's Prgress, 1734 -
Marriage-a-la-Mode
National Gallery, London
His masterpiece: a series of 6 paintings satirizing the morals of the upper levels of society.
