William Hogarth and Georgian Life

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/09/william-hogarth-and-georgian-life

'It is a sad irony that England’s greatest painter of children  (The Graham Children,  for example)  was childless. However, Hogarth and Jane worked tirelessly for the Foundling Hospital, helping other people’s children. The love for them fuelled Hogarth’s masterpiece, his portrait of the founder of the Foundling Hospital, Thomas Coram'