The Foundling Hospital was not only the UK’s first children’s charity but also lays claim to be the UK’s first public art gallery. Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum, tells how artist William Hogarth’s gift of a painting — and his subsequent collaboration with Thomas Coram, the founder of the Hospital — helped save children’s lives and laid the seedbed for the contemporary art scene as we know it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Award-winning documentaries which reveal the stories of art and art history. Make bite-sized art discoveries. http://bit.ly/Instagram_HENITalks Keep your finger on the pulse of art. http://bit.ly/Twitter_HENITalks Become part of the HENI Talks community. http://bit.ly/Facebook_HENITalks Find the HENI Talks for you with advanced search options. Explore wider reading around our Talks topics and find that key reference. http://bit.ly/Website_HENITalks Be the first to know when our latest talk is ready. http://bit.ly/YouTube_HENITalks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced by HENI. Follow HENI on Instagram http://bit.ly/Instagram_HENI Like HENI on Facebook http://bit.ly/Facebook_HENI Tweet @ HENI on Twitter http://bit.ly/Twitter_HENI Additional Credits / Creative Commons Information: Foundling Hospital, built 1742, Bloomsbury, London. H. Roberts, 1749 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 'Fleet Prison' by Thomas Rowlandson, and by Auguste Charles Pugin, aquatinted by Joseph Constantine Stadler, published by Rudolph Ackermann hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 1 September 1808 © National Portrait Gallery, London (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ #ArtHistory #WilliamHogarth #HENITalks A Harlot's Progress: Plate 4, Moll beats hemp in Bridewell Prison William Hogarth, 1732 © Trustees of the British Museum. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ A Harlot's Progress: Plate 2, Moll is now a kept woman, the mistress of a wealthy merchant William Hogarth 1732 © Trustees of the British Museum. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Portrait of a Young Man Pompeo Batoni, 1760–1765 CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Richard Cumberland George Romney, 1776 NPG 19 © National Portrait Gallery, London (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel John Sanders, 1774 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Self Portrait Allan Ramsay, 1713 https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3531/allan-ramsay-1713-1784-artist-self-portrait Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1747-1749 NPG 41 © National Portrait Gallery, London (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough, 1758-1759 NPG 4446 © National Portrait Gallery, London (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/