William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 Street in Soho (London) where his father … by Flaxman and the Reverend A.S. Mathew (1734-1824) and his wife Harriet Mathew (1743-1815), who hosted a literary salon and invited Blake on Flaxman’s recommendation. At these social gatherings Blake is reputed to have sung; Harriet … eidetic images, not hallucinations, and only real to him. In the final decade of his life, when he frequented the Aders’ Salon, Blake is reported to have told ‘a little group gathered around him’ about an extraordinary sighting on an evening …
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