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 :. | Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing | The Harpies and the Suicides | The Fall of Man (mk22) | Der grobe Rote Drache und die mit der Sonne bekleidete Frau | The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve |
Related Artists:
Henry Thomas Alken
1785-1851, Painter and engraver, son of Samuel Alken. He worked in London and the provinces and was prolific in a variety of media while unadventurous in his range of subject-matter. Early instruction by the miniature painter J. T. Beaumont (1774-1851) helped to give a certain graphic precision
Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach
painted The Forge of Vulcan in between 1869 and 1875
Erik Werenskiold
Norwegian Realist Painter, 1855-1936