A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–34, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam). The original paintings are in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where they are
John Trotter (painter) the "An Exhibition of 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Century Irish Paintings" at Gorry Gallery, and the "Exhibiting Art in Georgian Ireland" at the Irish Georgian Society in 2018, which displayed a work by Trotter from a private collection, "Portrait of an officer of an Irish Volunteer Regiment in a wooded landscape, holding a spontoon". John Trotter (painter) John Trotter (d. 1792) was an Irish artist and portrait painter. The first record of John Trotter appear in 1756, when his work was lauded by the "Hibernian Journal" while he was still a student in the Dublin Society's School. He spent