Financial success in 1846 finally allowed him to concentrate on landscape painting – and to paint many sunsets and harvest scenes.
Blake
Almost forgotten now, apart from the help that he gave William Blake, he was the most prominent British landscape painter after Turner’s death.
Tracing Blake’s influence through his friends John Linnell and Samuel Palmer to the likes of Graham Sutherland and Eric Ravilious.
Blake did not exercise his genius and vision in isolation. Here are some paintings by those who influenced him most.
A look back at some of the series and some surprises which you might have missed over the last year.
A wide-ranging selection of appealing and interesting watercolours, covering most of Blake’s career and themes.
Marching armies, a merry-go-round of angels, and a unique ‘springing’ Jesus: four extraordinary paintings from three geniuses of art.
Based on Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, these unique works tell us more about Blake’s beliefs than his other paintings.
A brief tour through some of Blake’s personal mythology, as depicted in his paintings. With explanations.
Decoding one of Blake’s paintings enables its reading: an obscure author of devotional texts takes us on a tour of different variants of God.
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