Hogarth's Paintings in Saint Bartholomew's

Hogarth used patients from the hospital as his models for the paintings, and he captured their illnesses pretty accurately. The characters in the paintings are sometimes introduced as topics of diagnosis discussion with medical students. He also requested that the two paintings never varnished, though at some point that request was disregarded repeatedly. After his work on the saint bartholomew's staircase project was complete, hogarth turned to more traditional portraiture. His famous self portrait, the painter and his pug, was created in 17 forty five. And that same year he released another series called marriage a la mod.