As part of daily life, popular entertainments become common subjects when art stopped being mainly concerned with morality themes. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Netherlands the richness of everyday life became a subject for art. Fairs and saints’ days were opportunities for revelry and drunkenness that would normally be frowned on. Hogarth carried this idea into eighteenth-century Britain, but by the nineteenth century depictions of rural fairs show them as sober and picturesque occasions.