William Blake

1757–1827 · Romanticism

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

37 paintings

• St. Matthew (1799)
• Despair of Job (1805)
• Sacrifice of Job (1805)
• The Adoration of the Kings (1799)
• The Lovers' Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1824)
• The Penance of Jane Shore (1793)
• Jacob's Ladder (1805)
• The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Rev. 12: 1-4) (1800)
• The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea (1805)
• The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (1805)
• Evening (1820)
• The Ancient of Days (1794)
• The Whore of Babylon (1809)
• The Horse (1805)
• Virgin and Child
• Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf (1799)
• The schismatics and sowers of discord- Mahomet (1824)
• Elohim creating Adam (1795)
• The Canterbury Pilgrims (1808)
• Satan calling up his legions (1809)
• The number of the beast is 666 (1805)
• Pity (1795)
• The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne (1805)
• The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides (1824)
• The Angel Appearing to Zacharias (1799–1800)
• Ezekiel's Wheels (1800)
• Newton (1795)
• Bathsheba at the Bath (1799)
• The Spiritual Form of Pitt guiding Behemoth (1805)
• The Spiritual Form of Nelson guiding Leviathan (1807)
• The Body of Christ Borne to the Tomb (1799)
• The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve (1826)
• Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils (1826)
• The Ghost of a Flea (1819)
• Job and His Daughters (1799/1800)
• The Last Supper (1799)
• Evening (c. 1820/1825)