an English painter, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"
Born
10 November 1697 London, England
Died
26 October 1764 (aged 66) London, England
Known for
Painter, engraver, satirist
Spouse(s)
Jane Thornhill
adultbasic
Britain
era
1600-1800
Patron(s)
Mary Edwards (1705–1743)
Resting place
St. Nicholas's Churchyard, Church Street, Chiswick, London