William Blake was an English poet, painter was born November 28, 1757, in London 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   Related Paintings of Blake, William :. | Nebuchadnezzar | Whirlwind of Lovers | The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun | madonnan med jed jesusbarnet i egypten | Songs of Innocence |
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Charles Meynier
Charles Meynier (1763, Paris - 1832, Paris) was a French painter. A student of François-Andre Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome competition. He made designs for the bas-reliefs and statues on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and was, from 1816 onward, a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts
BEMBO, Bonifazio
Italian Painter, active 1444-1477
Frederic Baxille
1841-1870