Left: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Infant Joy (ca, 1825). Photo: Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images. Right: Thomas Phillips, Portrait of William Blake (1807).

William Blake, “The Simoniac Pope” (1824–7) Blake now lives in room 7 beside a gallery devoted to a selection of works by Chris Ofili, a contemporary painter upon whom he has had a huge ...

He made drawings and paintings, too, and some nice ones appear among the 112 works in “William Blake: Visionary” at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, curated by the museum’s Edina Adam and ...

These Tiny Doodles May Be William Blake’s Earliest Engravings, Overlooked for Nearly 250 Years Using high-res scans, a researcher uncovered scribbled etchings likely made by the British poet and ...

You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (f… ...

Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is no conventional study. As in Mr. Hoare’s 2021 ...