William Blake
1757-1827
British
William Blake Galleries
William Blake started writing poems as a boy, many of them inspired by religious visions. Apprenticed to an engraver as a young man, Blake learned skills that allowed him to put his poems and drawings together on etchings, and he began to publish his own work. Throughout his life he survived on small commissions, never gaining much attention from the London art world. His paintings were rejected by the public (he was called a lunatic for his imaginative work), but he had a profound influence on Romanticism as a literary movement.
ID: 62538 Hecate or the Three Fates 1795 Pen and ink with watercolour, 430 580 mm Tate Gallery, London Recently the painting is called The Night of Enitharmon's Joy. The many titles show the many levels of meaning, or the impenetrable mystery of Blake's work. Author: BLAKE, William Title: Hecate or the Three Fates Form: graphics , 1751-1800 , English , mythological
