William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… school, was apprenticed to an engraver and studied at the Royal Academy. Blake had a close-knit family, many friends, patrons and employers. He was an eclectic reader and sympathized with radical politics as well as with Swedenborgianism. … People > Art and Literature Mots-clés 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) … Blair’s The Grave (1808), published by C.H. Cromek. There was much overlap between his commercial and creative work and patrons, or friends involved. Dr Robert Thornton (1768-1837), physician, botanist and subscriber to The Grave , …
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