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.
c 1795 Watercolour heightened with ink on paperh42 xw54 cm h16 3/4 x w21 1/4 in Tate Gallery London
c 1795 Watercolour heightened with ink on paperh42 xw54 cm h16 3/4 x w21 1/4 in Tate Gallery London
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The Spiritual Form of Nelson guiding Leviathan (mk47)
The Spiritual Form of Nelson guiding Leviathan (mk47)
Painting ID:: 26097
AA 1812
Relief etching,hand coloured
159x219mm
Lent by the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
AA 1812
Relief etching,hand coloured
159x219mm
Lent by the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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.