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Artists who influenced William Blake
The third son of the five children of James Blake and his wife, Catherine, Blake was born near Golden Square, Soho, in London, on 28 November 1757. He entered Henry Pars' drawing school in the Strand at the age of ten, was writing poetry by the age of twelve, and by the time he was twenty had produced some of the finest lyrical poetry in the English language. In 1772 he was apprenticed for sev ... more (Google)Artists who were influenced by William Blake

Jacques-Louis David

Expulsion from Eden (Paradise Lost)
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Good and Evil Fighting over Child

John Varley

Benjamin West

Wise and Foolish Virgins
(Yale Center for British Art)

Judgment of Paris
(British Museum)

Marc Chagall

Henry Fuseli

Michael Foretelling Crucifixion
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Complaint of Job
(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)

Samuel Palmer

Raphael

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing
(Tate Gallery)

Death of Strong Wicked Man

John Linnell