William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Thomas Phillips, ‘Portrait of William Blake’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 212, 1807. Abstract William Blake was never the eccentric loner or outsider that his early … 12 . Hayley wrote a biography of his friend, the poet William Cowper (1731-1800) and asked Blake to engrave a portrait after a painting by George Romney (1734-1803), another friend. Hayley invited Lady Harriet Hesket (1733-1807), …
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