William Hogarth was born in 1697 in London and was a painter known for his moral and satirical paintings. Grand Lodge records show that Hogarth was a Freemason by at least 1725 when he appeared on the register of a Lodge meeting at the Hand and Apple Tree in Little Queen Street.
In 1730 he was listed as a member of another Lodge meeting at the Bear and Harrow in Butcher Row, Temple Bar. In 1735 he was a Grand Steward at the Grand Lodge of England's annual Festival and designed a jewel for his fellow Grand Stewards.
Hogarth's father-in-law, the painter, Sir James Thornhill, was also a Freemason.
