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Blake, William
William Blake was an English poet, painter was born November 28, 1757, in London
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
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Painting ID:: 10790
Job and his Daughters
1799-1800, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C
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Painting ID:: 10791
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
1805-1810, watercolor, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.
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Painting ID:: 10792
The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
1822, watercolor, Tate Gallery, London.
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Painting ID:: 10793
The Body of Abel Found by Adam Eve,
1825, watercolor on wood
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Painting ID:: 21942
Beatrice addressing Dante from her Wagon (mk08)
c.1842-1826
Aquarell,36.5X52CM
London,Tate Gallery
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Blake, William
William Blake was an English poet, painter was born November 28, 1757, in London
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
. Related Artists to Blake, William: | Charles Webster Hawthorne | Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans | Horace Aumont | Theodore Heuck | Joseph Israels |
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