Joseph Hogarth

[1] He was living at 30 Denton St, Somers Town, London, by 1826, at which time he was described as a "print colourer and mounter."

Residential directories indicate the couple lived at 11 Somers Town Terrace from 1828 till 1832 by which time he was described as a "print colourer, artist and stationer."

Bicknell was a silent partner in a number of promising commercial enterprises, only becoming directly involved in order to resolve some pressing financial or legal issue.

[3] One of the first fruits of this association was, The works of William Hogarth; in a series of one hundred and fifty steel engravings, by the first artists, with descriptions and a comment on their moral tendency, Vol.

Royal patronage could enhance a firms status and an 1864 letterhead says Hogarth was print-seller and picture-frame maker to the Prince of Wales.

In 1862 he was employed to repair, mount, frame and glaze drawings in the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

He was also employed to repair and restore damaged prints, paintings and maps in public and private collections.

[7] Among the publications offered for sale was the entire remaining stock of Finden's Royal Gallery of British Art (1838-40).

In the 1860s, Hogarth was the sole London agent for Staffordshire potter John Stark who produced, among other things, ceramic copies of a bust of British Prime Minister William Gladstone by sculptor Thomas Woolner.

He owned at least one painting by J. M. W. Turner and another by George Romney[10] He sold one portfolio of drawings by William Blake to John Ruskin.

[11] The rise of photography saw the firm in the 1850s begin to publish and offer for sale albums of high quality photographs of landscapes, buildings and people.

On the letterheads of their business papers at the time the firm noted that their services included, "Specially prepared hand made mounts, free from all chemical & other impurities, for the preservation of water colour drawings."

Joseph Hogarth was a leading publisher and retailer of high quality reproductions of paintings, drawings, busts and photographs in London in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.