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 Paintings of William Blake :. | THe Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (mk19) | A black living hung collected its ribs | The murder of Abel | The Fall of Man (mk22) | Jerusalem Plate 51(mk47) |
Related Artists:
Juan Leon Palliere
painted Idilio criollo in c. 1861
Giovanni Battista Recco
Italian, 1615-1660
Aragon jose Rafael
b.c.1795 d. 1862