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[Text by Sir Charles John Holmes, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery and the sixth Director of the National Gallery, from Hokusai, published in 1901.] BORN: 1760 DIED: 1849 In the autumn of 1760, when Hogarth had just had his Sigismunda thrown on his hands by Sir Richard Grosvenor, a child was born in…