Rendering 5

A marriage restored
By Emily Sharpe. Conservation, Issue 244, March 2013
Published online: 13 March 2013

The Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts became the first American museum to own a painting by William Hogarth. The portraits of the 18th-century English gentleman and his “trophy wife” have been popular with visitors for more than a century, the paintings have remained in a storeroom for the past five years because of conservation issues, but now they are open for public again.