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 Circle of the Life of Man | Blake's Ancient of Days. | Job and his dottrar | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | The Night of Enitharmon's Joy | Related Artists:
John Singleton CopleyAmerican Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives.
BIGARNY, FelipeSpanish Sculptor, ca.1480-1542
Massimo d Azeglio1798-1866