William Hogarth
William Hogarth was born on the 10th November 1697 in Bartholomew Close in London, England. Hogarth had many different areas of Creative output that he enjoyed but he was best known as a painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist. His first brush with the Creative industry was when he became an apprenticed to the engraver Ellis Gamble in Leicester Fields, where he learned to engrave trade cards and similar products.
March of the Guards to Finchley, oil on canvas, 1750
Painter and his Pug, oil on canvas, 1745
William Blake
William Black was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. he was born on the 28th November 1757. William attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten, and was otherwise educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. On 4 August 1772, Blake became apprenticed to engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street, for the term of seven years. At the end of this period, at the age of 21, he was to become a professional engraver.
William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips
William Morris
William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.
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