The Artists of Chiswick Old Cemetery

It’s long been an ambition of mine to go to the grave of William Hogarth. One of our greatest artists and political commentators: a man who more it less invented Have I Got News For You centuries before the medium that transmits it was created. There’s a print that shows his tomb, newly constructed, give […]

William Hogarth and his neighbours in a Chiswick churchyard

One suspects that William Hogarth would chuckle bitterly at the irony – his home in Chiswick, once his peaceful country retreat, now backs onto a hellishly busy road and a concrete road junction named the “Hogarth Roundabout”. It’s an incongruous backdrop to the quiet elegance of Hogarth’s house, which today is home to a lovely […]