William Hogarth and the Foundling Hospital | HENI Talks

The Foundling Hospital was not only the UK’s first children’s charity but also lays claim to be the UK’s first public art gallery. Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum, tells how artist William Hogarth’s gift of a painting — and his subsequent collaboration with Thomas Coram, the founder of the Hospital — helped save children’s lives and laid the seedbed for the contemporary art scene as we know it.
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Foundling Hospital, built 1742, Bloomsbury, London.
H. Roberts, 1749
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

'Fleet Prison'
by Thomas Rowlandson, and by Auguste Charles Pugin, aquatinted by Joseph Constantine Stadler, published by Rudolph Ackermann
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 1 September 1808
© National Portrait Gallery, London
(CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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A Harlot's Progress: Plate 4, Moll beats hemp in Bridewell Prison
William Hogarth, 1732
© Trustees of the British Museum.
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A Harlot's Progress: Plate 2, Moll is now a kept woman, the mistress of a wealthy merchant William Hogarth 1732
© Trustees of the British Museum.
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Portrait of a Young Man
Pompeo Batoni, 1760–1765
CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)

Richard Cumberland
George Romney, 1776
NPG 19
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel
John Sanders, 1774
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Self Portrait
Allan Ramsay, 1713

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1747-1749
NPG 41
© National Portrait Gallery, London
(CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough, 1758-1759
NPG 4446
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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