# Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly

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{{Short description|Painting by William Hogarth}}
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| image_file = William Hogarth 052.jpg
| title = Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly
| artist = [William Hogarth](/source/William_Hogarth)
| year = 1741
| type = [Oil on canvas](/source/Oil_painting), [portrait painting](/source/portrait_painting)
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| width_metric = 101.5
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| museum = [Tate Britain](/source/Tate_Britain)
| city = [London](/source/London)
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'''''Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly''''' is a 1741 [portrait painting](/source/portrait_painting) by the British artist [William Hogarth](/source/William_Hogarth). It depicts the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) cleric [Benjamin Hoadly](/source/Benjamin_Hoadly), then serving as [Bishop of Winchester](/source/Bishop_of_Winchester).<ref>Einberg & Egerton p.101</ref><ref>Bindman p.52</ref> A strong supporter of the [Hanoverian Succession](/source/Hanoverian_Succession), Hoadly was known for initiating the [Bangorian Controversy](/source/Bangorian_Controversy) earlier in his career. 

Hogarth depicts him in his robes as bishop and as prelate as the [Order of the Garter](/source/Order_of_the_Garter). Behind him is a [stained glass window](/source/stained_glass_window) featuring [Saint Paul](/source/Saint_Paul), a reference to Hoadly's own [Pauline theology](/source/Pauline_Christianity). 
LToday the painting is in the collection of the [Tate Britain](/source/Tate_Britain) in [London](/source/London), having been purchased in 1910.<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-benjamin-hoadly-bishop-of-winchester-n02736</ref>
The French [engraver](/source/engraver) [Bernard Baron](/source/Bernard_Baron) produced a line engraving based on the picture in 1743.<ref>https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/400267</ref> The work should not be confused with portraits Hogarth produced of the bishop's son the [physician](/source/physician) [Benjamin Hoadly](/source/Benjamin_Hoadly_(physician)). 

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
* Bindman, David. ''Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy''. University of California Press, 1997. 
* Einberg, Elizabeth and Egerton, Judy. ''The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709''. Tate Gallery, 1988.
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Category:1741 paintings
Category:Paintings in the Tate galleries
Category:Oil paintings on canvas
Category:Portraits of men
Category:18th-century portraits
Category:Paintings by William Hogarth

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