William Blake was an English poet, painter was born November 28, 1757, in London 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   Related Paintings of Blake, William :. | The Marriage of Heaven Hell | newton | Glad Day | Christ as the Redeemer of Man | God as an Architect |
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