Hogarth Club

The Hogarth Club was founded in April 1858 by members of the artist group disintegrated in 1853 the Pre-Raphaelites in London. In addition to the social and communicative function as a social club ( social club) the club was primarily a place for exhibitions. In December 1861, the corporation was dissolved.

The club was named after the painter William Hogarth. Hogarth was chosen as the namesake basis of merit in the establishment of an independent modern English school of painting and his moralizing disapproval of social conditions in the 18th century.

Foundation

At the launch was the rejection of works by former students of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood members and by the Royal Academy of Arts. As 1857 in the exhibition of the Royal Academy whose work again dismissed or issued under bad conditions, it was decided to form an independent union of the Academy exhibition. One of the main initiators was Ford Madox Brown. After the experiments, a joint exhibition of 1852 and 1855 as well as the exhibitions in Langham Palace studios in 1856 and 1857, held Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, Brown organized the first joint exhibition in 1857, held prior to the founding of the club, in 4 Russell Place.

On April 10th, 1858 artists and supporters of the group decided the Articles of Association. The members of the club Hogarth were divided into two different classes. A class was formed of the artists, the artistic members, where painters, sculptors, architects, and writers belonged. The other class formed from the laity, which was composed of collectors, and professionalists, the dealers, as well as their friends.

The contribution for the class of resident artistic members, the artist 's residence in London, was set at 3 pounds and 10 shillings or £ 4 per year. For all other members who were not artists (non- artistic members ), or artists who reside outside London ( non-resident artistic members ), the annual contribution was 2.10 pounds. The members of the Executive Ford Madox Brown, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Edward Burne -Jones, Frederic George Stephens and William Michael Rossetti were elected.

The work of the Hogarth Club

In July 1858, the first rooms of the clubs were opened in 178 Piccadilly in London. The constant year round and full, with no planned admission gallery business was not very successful on, because few works have been exhibited. At the first major exhibition in January 1859 at which about eighty works were exhibited by members, the limited space became apparent. A second exhibition was organized in the summer of 1859. As early as 1859 began first quarrels and debates to split the Hogarth Club. The contributions of Morten and pollen in the first exhibition were the occasion to argue about the nature of the works to be exhibited. As in the second exhibition in the summer of Brown's work came to furniture with rejection, he withdrew his exhibits and left the group temporarily. Thus, the club lost one of its dedicated founders. As early as 1859 it became clear that only an enlargement of the exhibition rooms and the expansion of the number of members would ensure the survival of the club.

The new larger premises in 6 Waterloo Place were still occupied in the summer of 1859. A first exhibition was held in May 1860. Not only stylistic questions, but also the way how the club should be run, led to differences. John Ruskin resigned his membership after setting up a billiard table, and Thomas Plint was not willing to tolerate the opening of the club on Sundays.

The last exhibition was held from February to May 1861. In the spring led financial problems for consideration to raise entrance fees. This, however, the non-profit corporation status would have expired and the privilege to show the works in front of exhibitions at the Royal Academy, has been lost. In September, the resolution was adopted by the members and conducted in December of the same year.

Appreciation

The short time in which the Hogarth Club against the Royal Academy was able to maintain an independent association was characterized by internal disputes about the nature and purpose of the association. There was agreement in the rejection of the academic school of the Academy, up to the complete rejection of that state institution at all. Although many club members took part in the exhibitions of the Academy, none of the artists of the Hogarth Club at the same time a member of the Academy. The foundation was one of the last attempts to form an independent association of artists from the Academy.

Members of the Hogarth Club

  • George Frederick Bodley, architect.
  • George Price Boyce, architect and painter.
  • John Brett, a painter.
  • Ford Madox Brown, a painter and designer.
  • Sir Edward Coley Burne -Jones, a painter and designer.
  • William Burges, architect and designer.
  • Sir Frederick William Burton painter and collector.
  • William Shakespeare Burton, painter.
  • James Campbell, a painter from Liverpool.
  • John Mulcaster Carrick, painter.
  • J. R. Clayton, painter.
  • Thomas Combe, painter.
  • David Cox (painter), painter.
  • John Crowe, writer and critic.
  • Francis Danby, painter.
  • William Davis, a painter from Liverpool.
  • William Dyce, a painter.
  • A.D. Fripp
  • Michael Frederick Halliday, painter and illustrator.
  • Arthur Hughes, painter and illustrator
  • William Holman Hunt, painter from Liverpool.
  • William Henry Hunt, painter.
  • John William Inchbold, painter.
  • G. Charlton Lane
  • Edward Lear, writer.
  • Frederic Leighton, painter and sculptor.
  • John Frederick Lewis, painter.
  • Thomas E. Plint, businessman, collector and patron of Leeds.
  • Val Prinsep, painter, (1858 - )
  • E. H. Martineau
  • Robert Braithwaite Martineau, painter.
  • John Miller of Everton, tobacco wholesalers, collectors from Liverpool.
  • Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, poet.
  • William Morris, designer and writer.
  • Thomas Morten, painter and illustrator.
  • William Michael Rossetti, critic.
  • John Wright Oakes, painter from Liverpool, in 1859 London.
  • John Hungerford Pollen, Illustrator.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet.
  • John Ruskin, critic.
  • William Bell Scott, painter and poet.
  • John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, painter.
  • Frederic George Stephens, writer and critic.
  • George Edmund Street, architect.
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet and critic.
  • John Lucas Tupper, sculptors and poets and theorists
  • George Frederick Watts, painter.
  • Philip Speakman Webb, architect and designer.
  • Henry Wallis, painter, writer and collector.
  • Henry Clarence Whaite, painter.
  • William Lindsay Windus, painter from Liverpool.
  • Benjamin Woodward engineer and architect.
  • Thomas Woolner, sculptor, and poet.
  • Thomas Sibson, Illustrator.
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