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WILLIAM BLAKE was born on 28 November 1757 into a world unready to receive the artist and poet of genius that he proved to be. His father was a hosier living in Broad Street in the Soho district of London. He was the second son of a family of four boys and one girl. Only his younger brother Robert was of great significance in William’s life, as he was the one to share his devotion to the arts. William very soon declared his intention of becoming an artist and was allowed to leave ordinary school at the age of ten to join a drawing school. Here he worked for five years, but, when the time came for an apprenticeship, his father was unable to afford the expense of his entrance to a painter’s studio. A premium of fifty guineas, however, enabled him, aged nearly fifteen, to enter on 4 August 1772 the workshop of a master-engraver, James Basire.
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