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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.
Description. Portrait of Miss Croney of Killarney; three-quarter length standing beside table to left, wearing grey shawl and bonnet, looking to front, head tilted to right. Pen and grey ink with grey and brown wash and watercolour over graphite. Producer name. Drawn by: William Pars. School/style. British. Production date.
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 ...
Nov 28, 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.
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William Blake had his first vision at age 10—a tree full of angels. Artistically precocious, Blake spent his youth at Henry Pars’s drawing school, copying the human figure from plaster casts of ancient statues.
