Lear and Cordelia, Thomas Butts, Jr. after William Blake, probably c. 1806/1808
William Blake, PorträtWilliam BlakeVereinigtes Königreich, 1757–1827

Lear and Cordelia

probably c. 1806/1808 · Print

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Im Leben von William Blake

Das ganze Leben
  1. 1780–1808

    Exhibits six times at the Royal Academy

    Despite his antagonism towards Reynolds, Blake submitted works to the Royal Academy on six occasions between 1780 and 1808.

  2. Oktober 1803 – 1820 · Wohnort

    South Molton Street

  3. 1804

    Returns to London and begins “Jerusalem”

    In 1804 Blake returned to London and began to write and illustrate “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion” (1804–20), his most ambitious work.

  4. after 1804

    Cromek cheats Blake; Stothard gets the commission

    Having conceived the idea of portraying the characters of Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales”, Blake approached the dealer Robert Cromek with a view to marketing an engraving; Cromek, thinking Blake too eccentric to produce a popular work, promptly commissioned Blake's friend Thomas Stothard instead. When Blake learned he had been cheated, he broke off contact with Stothard.

  5. c. 1808

    Polemical annotations to Reynolds's “Discourses”

    Around 1808 Blake gave vigorous expression to his views on art in an extensive series of polemical annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's “Discourses”, denouncing the Royal Academy as a fraud and proclaiming that to generalise is to be an idiot.

  6. 1809

    An exhibition in his brother's shop: nothing sold

    Blake set up an independent exhibition in his brother's haberdashery shop at 27 Broad Street in Soho to market his version of “The Canterbury Pilgrims” along with other works. It was very poorly attended, sold none of the temperas or watercolours, and its only review, in The Examiner, was hostile.

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