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artists in Britain, but to make his country a better place, so that
all honest, hard working citizens could find success and happiness, and where basic humanity would be expressed through
the care of those who are vulnerable and in need. For Britain
in 2023, Hogarth and his art has never been more relevant."
Hogarth’s Britons has been generously supported by 18
individual lenders including His Majesty King Charles III
(Royal Collection Trust), UK national museums,
galleries and libraries, independent museums and private
collections.
The exhibition has been produced in partnership with
London’s National Galleryand the National Portrait
Gallery as part of its National Skills Sharing Partnership
Programme. This programme sees the National Portrait
Gallery partner with colleagues across the UK to share its
Collection while it undergoes its transformative Inspiring
People project, funded byThe National Heritage Lottery
Fund and Art Fund. It is supported by the Weston Loan
Programme with Art Fund, the first ever UK-wide funding scheme which the Garfield Weston Foundation
created to enable smaller and local authority museums
to borrow works of art and artefacts from national
collections. Significant funding has also been received
from The Headley Trust, the Duke of Devonshire’s
Charitable Trust and Marketing Derby, as well as from
museum Friends, volunteers and supporters from Derby
and beyond who, together, raised £20,000 last autumn in
a public appeal to bring the world-class exhibition to the
city.
Visitors will be able to see many of Hogarth’s masterpieces
including The March of the Guards to Finchley
(Foundling Museum, London) and Marriage A-La-Mode
(The National Gallery, London) alongside other major
Hogarth paintings including The Shrimp Girl(The
National Gallery, London) and The Beggar’s Opera
(Birmingham Museums). Loans from the Royal Collection Trust include Hogarth’s intimate portrait of King
George II and his family which, alongside magnificent
Stuart portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, will introduce visitors to the main characters in this fascinating
story of rival royal dynasties. Twenty-five of Hogarth’s
iconic engravings -including the portrait of infamous clan
chief Simon Fraser, as well as Lord Lovat to O the Roast
Beef of Old England (Calais Gate)and The Humours of
an Election-will also be on display, generously loaned by
Chetham’s Library, Manchester and Andrew Edmunds,
London. Other gems to be found in the exhibition include
Scottish artist Allan Ramsay’s recently re-discovered portrait of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’(Prince Charles Edward
Stuart), on loan from National Galleries of Scotland and
returning to Derby for the first time in nearly 300 years.
Below, William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 2, The Tête à
Tête, c. 1743, oil on canvas © The National Gallery, London
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