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View all 111 artworks. William Blake lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of British Romanticism and Symbolism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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William Blake (Londres, 28 de noviembre de 1757-ibídem, 12 de agosto de 1827) fue un poeta, pintor y grabador inglés. Aunque permaneció en gran parte desconocido durante el transcurso de su vida, actualmente el trabajo de Blake cuenta con una alta consideración.
- British
- London, United Kingdom
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
- Poetry
- Royal Academy of Arts
- 28 November 1757, Soho, London
- Romanticism
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Later Work
- The Legacy of William Blake
William Blake was born in Soho, London, into a respectable working-class family. His father James sold stockings and gloves for a living, while his mother, Catherine Hermitage, looked after the couple's seven children, two of whom died in infancy. William, a strong-willed boy and an evident prodigy from a young age, often absconded from school to w...
The drawing academy turned out to be too expensive, and Blake was forced to quit after four years. It was intended that he would become apprentice to a master engraver but - so the story goes - when his father took him to meet his prospective employer William Ryland, the young Blake refused, declaring that "it looks as if he will live to be hanged!...
In 1795, Blake began a series known as the Large Colour Prints, depicting subjects from the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare. Though Blake was never an isolated figure - he socialized widely, and attached himself to various cultural circles in London, through friends such as Henry Fuseli and James Barry - Raine notes that he was not an "easy man soci...
Blake lived in Soho, the neighborhood of his birth, for almost his entire life, very rarely travelling. But despite this lack of worldliness, he made himself a highly cultured man, acquiring a large collection of classical art prints, for example. After years of poverty, he was forced to sell his print collection, but in 1818 Blake's financial fort...
William Blake is generally considered one of the great artistic polymaths, not just one of the finest poets in the English language, but also one of Britain's most revolutionary visual artists: the critic Jonathan Jones describes him as "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Blake is also remembered for the intricate and uniq...
- British
- November 28, 1757
- London, England
- August 12, 1827
William Blake. Reino Unido, 1757–1827. Romanticismo. Visionarios. Poesía y arte. Para William Blake estas disciplinas eran complementarias, por lo que siempre que pudo las fusionó.
Neglected and in poverty, Blake was introduced in 1818 to John Linnell, who became his second major patron, commissioning a succession of works--including the engravings to the Book of Job (1823-1826), Blake's most popular work, and a set of illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy (1824-1827)--and who made regular payments to him until his death.
