William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… about Blake and sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords Art Collecting Commerce Conversation Correspondence Exhibitions Friendship Patronage Poetry Salons William Blake (1757-1827) was born into a dissenting family at 28 Broad … the Book of Job (1826) which the painter John Linnell (1792-1882) commissioned. 5 Blake’s biggest undertaking was the exhibition of 1809. His marketing campaign, following the commercial approach of the literary galleries, advertised … Pilgrims painting specifically. Blake implemented what he learned from Cromek but again only contacted his friends. The exhibition was a fiasco. 6 5 . G.E. Bentley Jr. collated lists of people who acquired Blake’s works during his lifetime, …
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