Although the British visionary, poet, and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was moderately successful as an engraver, people thought his art was bizarre, that his poetry was gibberish, and that he was ...

When Blake died in 1827, just short of 70, young George Richmond, a future Royal Academician, closed the artist's eyes "to keep the vision in." A writer, engraver, printmaker and painter, Blake, who ...