Martin Gayford

Ignore the wall text and focus on the magnificent paintings: Tate Britain’s Hogarth and Europe reviewed

Plus: the most significant painter at work in Britain between Turner and Francis Bacon is on show at Piano Nobile

Source for Hogarth’s Harlot? ‘The Flea’, 1707–1709 by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Credit: Uffizi Gallery

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