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Biography of William Blake
William Blake was an artist, illustrator, poet and visionary in the eighteenth/nineteenth centuries.
When and Where was he Born?
28th November 1757, 28 Broad Street, Golden Square, Soho, London, England.
Family Background:
William Blake was the second of five children.
Son of James, a hosier, and Catherine.
Education:
Taught by his mother.
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In turn he taught his own sister and then his wife. Thought to have attended Henry Par’s drawing school in the Strand, London at the age of ten. Royal Academy Schools, London.
Timeline of William Blake
1767: Birth of his favourite brother, Robert on 4th August.
It was around this time that he had his first vision of angels sitting in the trees as he walked across Peckham Rye. He enters Henry Pars drawing school at 101 The Strand.
1769:William Blake begins writing poems at the age of twelve.
1772: He is apprenticed to the engraver James Basire in Great Queen Street, Lincoln