The Laughing Audience
after William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1733 (after)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
765 x 635 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485148
Caption
Hogarth published an etching of this subject in 1733, as a subscription ticket for his Rake’s Progress engravings. It is from this that the present composition is probably derived. A sketch of the same composition, painted in 1730, is presently untraced. A cutting on the back of the picture states that the scene is set in an orchestra held on the Isle of Wight, of which Hogarth was a member.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Laughing Audience after William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764). An audience in a theatre, with orange girls, beaux and seated figures. In the front is a spiked rail.
Provenance
Recorded at No. 4, Grosvenor Place in 1847 and at Petworth in 1856. By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Label on back: "The Orchestra painted by Hogarth for a Club in the Isle of Wight of which he was a Member." recorded by Henry Restra Bolton (1792-1871), Miscellaneous papers relating to cleaning and restoration of paintings. Pictures at No.4 Grosvenor Place London. belonging to Colonel Wyndham May 31st 1847. Petworth House Archives, PHA. 7521-27, no.9.
Makers and roles
after William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), artist