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WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)
A female nude
c.1720-35RCIN 913482
This study of a woman was probably taken from a life model at the St Martin’s Lane Academy. It formed the basis for one of the figures in Hogarth’s depiction of The Pool of Bethesda, a large oil painting made as a gift for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1736.
In the Royal Collection by 1833
Cat. 88
