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William Blake
1757-1827
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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:: 94443
The Lovers' Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
374 x 530 mm
1824 - 1827
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Painting ID:: 94444
Blake's Ancient of Days.
23.3 x 16.8 cm (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
1794(1794)
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Painting ID:: 94445
The murder of Abel
c. 1825
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Painting ID:: 94446
Blake's Newton
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1795
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Painting ID:: 94447
A Negro Hung Alive
1796
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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: | John Hubbard Rich | Charles De Groux | Stanislaw Wyspianski | Albert Baertsoen | Mary Cassatt |
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