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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:: 82
God as an Architect
1794
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Painting ID:: 83
Job and his Daughters
1799-1800
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Painting ID:: 22257
THe Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (mk19)
c 1806-1809
Water-colour,34.3 x 42 cm
Brooklyn Museum,Brooklyn(NY)
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Painting ID:: 22291
The Ancient of Days,frontispiece for Europe,a Prophecy (mk19)
1794
Colour engraving,pen,water-colour
30.4 x 23.6 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum,Cambridge
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Painting ID:: 22293
Happy Day-The Dance of Albion (mk19)
1794-1796
Colour engraving,pen and water-colours for Europe,a Prophecy,30.4 x 23.6 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum,Cambridge
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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: | Alexis Simon Belle | Ferdinand Roybet | Willem Pietersz. Buytewech | Jean Leon Gerome Ferris | Walter Leistikow |
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