1757-1827
British
William Blake Galleries
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 (he was called a lunatic for his imaginative work), but he had a profound influence on Romanticism as a literary movement.
Related Paintings of William Blake :. | Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne | Blake's Newton | The Lovers' Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta | The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun | Glad Day | Related Artists:
PALAMEDESZ, AntonieDutch Baroque Era Painter, 1601-1673
Hans von Marees (24 December 1837 - 5 June 1887) was a German painter. He mainly painted country scenes in a realistic style.
Von Marees was born in Elberfeld, Germany. At age 16, he was sent to the Berlin Academy. In 1857, he moved to Munich.
In 1869, he visited France, the Netherlands and Spain. He served in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and then lived in Berlin and Dresden for a while. In 1873, he decorated the library walls of the newly built Naples Zoological Institute in Italy. The next year, he moved to Florence.
He died in Rome at the age of 49 and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery there.
Eloi Firmin Feronpainted Eloi Firmin Feron in 1834
