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| William Hogarth, The Painter and his Pug, 1745. © Tate, 2003. |
About this artwork
This is a picture of a painting within a painting. If you look closely you will
see that there is an oval frame surrounding the man; this is a painting of the
artist, William Hogarth. Outside the frame there is a dog, books and a painters’
palette.
The dog is a pug; Hogarth loved pugs because he thought they looked a bit like
him. Do you think the dog looks like him? The dog’s name was Trump and he
belonged to Hogarth. Hogarth also included Trump in some of his other paintings.
This painting is on display at Tate Britain. |
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