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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: William Blake, J. M. W. Turner, William Hogarth, John Sell Cotman, Lucian Freud, George Cumberland, Elisabeth Frink, Robert Bevan, Berenice Sydney, Samuel Palmer, Orovida Camille Pissarro, Stanley William Hayter, John Piper, Ralph Chubb, William Marshall, Charles W. Bartlett, Howard Hodgkin, F. L. Griggs, David Shaw, George Garrard, Gerald Spencer Pryse, Norman Ackroyd, John Walker, John Romney, Alex Binnie, Paul Coldwell, Patrick Caulfield, John Kashdan, John Skinner Prout, Chris Orr, James Basire, Bernard Meninsky, William Tombleson, Ernest Stephen Lumsden, Stanley Roy Badmin, Rob Ryan, Mabel Annesley, Clare Leighton, Marilene Oliver, Hugh O'Donnell, Julian Trevelyan, Keith Milow, Robert Austin, Jack Coutu, Francis Place, Martin Aynscomb-Harris, William Lodge, Henry Roberts, Edward Calvert, Albert Irvin, Charles Chaplin, Edward Piper, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, Peter Ford, Anthony Walker, Charles Joseph Hullmandel, Frank Morley-Fletcher, John Brunsdon, William Sharp, Oxford Printmakers, Richard Vicary, Eileen Cooper, Joseph Grozer. Excerpt: William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language." His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced." Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God," or "Human existence itself." Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncr...
