The Rake's Progress The Rake's Progress The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings "A Rake's Progress" (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition. The story concerns the decline and fall of one Tom Rakewell, who deserts Anne Trulove for the delights of London in the company of Nick Shadow, who turns out to be the Devil. After several misadventures, all initiated by the devious Shadow, Tom
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