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From early childhood Blake showed a predilection for art and at age ten was enrolled at Henry Pars's drawing school. Fascinated by prints, attracted to the classical style of High Renaissance art, and fortunate to be indulged by his father, Blake began to acquire prints by Dürer, Michelangelo, Raphael and others - artists out of favour and ...
5 giorni fa · In 1767, at the age of 10, Blake was sent to Mr. Pars’s drawing school. He stayed here for four years, copying plaster-casts. Pars's drawing school was located on the North Side of the Strand in Castle Court. The address no longer exists, as the court was demolished during the Regency.
Blake enters Henry Pars' drawing school in the Strand, London. Robert Blake, William's favorite brother, is born. 1772–79 Blake trains as an apprentice to the reproductive engraver James Basire (1730–1802), with whom he resides in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. 1779
Interested in art from a young age, he attended Henry Pars’s Drawing School on the Strand, where he learned how to draw the human figure from plaster casts. At the age of 14, he began a seven-year apprenticeship to James Basire, a conservative, somewhat old-fashioned commercial printmaker known for his architectural prints.
Artistically precocious, Blake spent his youth at Henry Pars’s drawing school, copying the human figure from plaster casts of ancient statues. As a teenager, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, and tasked with drawing the tombs and monuments at Westminster Abbey, a gothic experience that colored his world in metaphysical hues.
Born in London in 1757 into a working-class family with strong nonconformist religious beliefs, Blake first studied art as a boy, at the drawing academy of Henry Pars. He served a five-year apprenticeship with the commercial engraver James Basire before entering the Royal Academy Schools as an engraver at the age of twenty-two.
28 nov 2017 · His artistic talents led his father to send him to Henry Pars' drawing school at the age of 10, where he learnt to copy from prints and plaster casts, and in 1772 he was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire.
