“No man of sense ever supposes that copying from nature is the art of painting; if the art is no more than this, it is no better than any other manual labour.”
About William Blake
28 November 1757–12 August 1827
William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street, Soho, London, into a city that was becoming the commercial, imperial, and intellectual center of Britain. He died seventy years later, on 12 August 1827, in a modest room south of the Thames, leaving behind work that had attracted only a small and…