Fan account of Samuel Palmer (27 Jan 1805 – 24 May 1881) Romantic British landscape painter, printmaker, writer, and cofounder of #TheAncients Art Movement
Nov 28, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Born #OTD in 1757: English poet, painter, printmaker and mentor of the Shoreham Ancients…William Blake
Creator of Jerusalem and The Tyger he is considered one of the greatest artists and poets in the English language. But what do we really know about him? 🧵1/8 #WilliamBlake
William Blake was born on Broad Street, Golden Square, London to a middle-class family third of 7 children. James Blake his father was a hosier. Will never attended school, educated at home by his mother. The Blakes were Moravian Dissenters 2/8