布莱克生平简介 威廉·布莱克(william Blake)是一个平凡家庭里的一个极不平凡的人。他的父亲詹姆斯·布莱克是一个袜商,和他的妻子凯瑟琳一起住在伦敦索霍区金色广场宽街28号。威廉·布莱克生于1757年11月28日,是这家四个儿子、一个女儿中的老二。小兄弟罗伯特比他小九岁,和他显得特别亲密。布莱克很早就在绘画上显露出天赋,所以,他十岁时就被送进亨利·帕斯主持的斯特兰德的一所绘画学校。五年以后他跟随雕刻匠詹姆斯·巴赛尔当学徒,此后就在林肯客栈广场大皇后街上干了七年。由于和师兄弟发生口角,他被派往威斯敏斯特教堂去作 Blake Biography William Blake is an extraordinary man in an ordinary family. His father, James Black, a sock business, lives with his wife, Catherine, at 28 Golden Street Broadway, Soho, London. Born on November 28, 1757, William Black was the fourth son and the second of a daughter. Robert, a little brother, was nine years younger than him, and he was particularly intimate. Blake had a long history of talent in painting, so when he was ten, he was taken to a painting school in Strand, run by Henry Pars. Five years later he followed apprentice James Basser as an apprentice and has since spent seven years on Queen Street in Lincoln Square. He was dispatched to Westminster Abbey for speaking to his brothers