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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
Nov 29, 2016 · 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.
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 ...
William Pars' elder brother Henry assisted Shipley in his school and when Shipley retired around 1760, Henry Pars took over and William became his assistant. Cosway, Mortimer, Humphry and Smart were all pupils of the school at the time.
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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Feb 10, 2015 · “Thank God I never was sent to school,” he said, instead attending Henry Pars’s drawing classes from the age of 10. Young Blake had an allowance from his father to buy casts of antiquities for drawing practice, and prints at auction. At 14, Blake was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire.
