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) | sir james macdonald and sir alexander macdonald | Dante_Hell_XII | The Harpies and the Suicides | The Ghost of a Flea | Related Artists:
Dirck van Delen1604-1671
Dutch
Dirck van Delen Location
Dutch painter. When he married in 1625 he was a citizen of Middelburg, but he settled in nearby Arnemuiden, where he became master of the toll-house. From 1628 until his death he was almost continually a member of the town council, mostly as burgomaster. He was widowed three times and had at least one son, though no children survived him. The inventory of his estate testifies that he was well-to-do.
MASTER of San Francesco Bardiactive 1240-1270 in Florence
wolfgang amadeus mozartBorn: 27 January 1756
Birthplace: Salzburg, Austria
Died: 5 December 1791 (fever)
Best Known As: Composer of Eine kleine Nachtmusik