Restored Hogarth murals at London hospital open to public for first time

Wendy Porter, a nurse at the hospital, stands in the staircase decorated with Hogarth’s The Good Samaritan (left) and The Pool of Bethesda. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

They had remained almost unseen for 300 years, but now two of William Hogarth’s masterpiece murals are available to the public for the first time.

The North Wing at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London, which contains The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan – two large-scale murals by the British painter – has opened after a £9.5m restoration project.