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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.
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Painting ID:: 77
A William Blake reproduction, photographed in our studio
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Painting ID:: 78
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1790-93
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Painting ID:: 79
The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
1825
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Painting ID:: 80
Glad Day
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Painting ID:: 81
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
1805-1810
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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.
. Related Artists to William Blake: | Francis Guy | Julius Kronberg | Kitagawa Utamaro | Christoph Paudiss | Frank Holl |
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