Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram
1740 painting by William Hogarth
| Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram | |
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| German: Porträt des Captain Thomas Coram | |
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| Artist | William Hogarth |
| Year | 1740 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 239 cm × 147.5 cm (94 in × 58.1 in) |
| Location | Foundling Museum, London |
Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram is a 1740 portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram painted by William Hogarth. The portrait, which represents Hogarth's highest achievement in direct portraiture, was not created as a commission and was instead donated to Coram's Foundling Hospital.[1] The portrait is divided into two sections: The left side represents Coram's sea ventures, a major source of his wealth. The right side shows a curtain pulled over a mother figure with a child.[2]
The painting is now in the collection of London's Foundling Museum.
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William Hogarth
- List of works
- Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (1721)
- The Bad Taste of the Town (1724)
- A Just View of the British Stage (1724)
- Before and After (1736)
- The Company of Undertakers (1736)
- Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738)
- The Distrest Poet (1741)
- The Enraged Musician (1741)
- Characters and Caricaturas (1743)
- Industry and Idleness (1747)
- Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751)
- The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751)
- Columbus Breaking the Egg (1752)
- Satire on False Perspective (1754)
- Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1761)
- Five Orders of Periwigs (1761)
- John Wilkes Esq. (1763)
- The Assembly at Wanstead House (c. 1728–1732)
- Before and After (1730–31)
- A Harlot's Progress (1731)
- A Rake's Progress (1732–33, The Tavern Scene)
- Scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest (c.1735)
- Four Times of the Day (1736)
- The Distrest Poet (1736)
- The Shrimp Girl (c.1740)
- Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1740)
- Taste in High Life (1742)
- The Graham Children (1742)
- Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin (1745)
- David Garrick as Richard III (1745)
- Painter and his Pug (1745)
- The Gate of Calais (1748)
- Hogarth's Servants (c.1750)
- The March of the Guards to Finchley (1750)
- Humours of an Election (1755)
- Sealing the Tomb (1755)
- Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse (1757)
- The Bench (1758)
- The Lady's Last Stake (1759)
- Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo (1759)
| Marriage A-la-Mode (1745) |
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- The Analysis of Beauty (1753)
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- Sarah Malcolm
- Hogarth Club
- Mary Edwards (Patron)
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