TheHogarth Club was an exhibition society of artists, based at 84 Charlotte Street,Fitzrovia, London, UK, which existed between 1858 and 1861. It was founded by former members of thePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood after the original PRB had been dissolved. It was envisaged that the club would provide an alternative meeting space and exhibition venue to overcome prejudice against the Pre-Raphaelites at theRoyal Academy. Unlike the PRB, the Hogarth Club was established on a professional basis, with two classes of members, artistic and non-artistic, and a distinction between London-based "resident" and provincial "non-resident" members.

Ford Madox Brown suggested that the club be named afterWilliam Hogarth since Hogarth was "a painter whom he deeply reverenced as the originator of moral invention and drama in modern art".^[1] Brown andDante Gabriel Rossetti had worked on some previous independent exhibitions, but became determined to form a permanent exhibition space after the rejection of Pre-Raphaelite work by the Academy in 1857. In response they created their own exhibition, later founding the Hogarth Club in tandem with other sympathetic artists, most notablyWilliam Holman Hunt andJohn Roddam Spencer Stanhope.^[2]

Despite initial success, the Hogarth Club failed to maintain its momentum, and was finally closed in 1861 after failing to adequately build up its membership in the face of hostility from the Royal Academy. Even the former leading Pre-RaphaeliteJohn Everett Millais refused to join, as did otherwise sympathetic Royal Academicians such asAugustus Egg.

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