William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764; died at 66. Alive at the same time as Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Immanuel Kant. Wiki link