Martin Gayford

Ignore the wall text and focus on the magnificent paintings: Tate Britain’s Hogarth and Europe reviewed

Plus: the most significant painter at work in Britain between Turner and Francis Bacon is on show at Piano Nobile

Source for Hogarth’s Harlot? ‘The Flea’, 1707–1709 by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Credit: Uffizi Gallery 
issue 04 December 2021
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  • Hogarth and Europe

    Tate Britain, until 20 March 2022

  • Sickert: The Theatre of Life

    Piano Nobile, until 17 December

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