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William Blake
English poet and artist (1757–1827)
- Child of James Blake and Catherine Hermitage
- Married to Catherine Blake
- Dated 28 November 1757 CE – 12 August 1827 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of William Blake
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 8
Family 8
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Catherine Hermitage mother of poet William Blake
- child of (father) James Blake father of poet William Blake
- sibling of Catherine Elizabeth Blake sister of poet William Blake
- sibling of James Blake elder brother of poet William Blake
- sibling of Jimmy Solís Delgado brother of poet William Blake
- sibling of John Blake brother of poet William Blake
- sibling of Robert Blake English draftsman and painter (1767-1787)
- married to Catherine Blake British printer (1762-1831)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 4
William Blake English poet and artist (1757–1827) 
Connections
How William Blake connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 12
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
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was influenced by Ben Jonson English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637) -
was influenced by Dante Alighieri Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321) -
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was influenced by Emmanuel Swedenborg Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772) -
was influenced by Giulio Romano Italian painter and architect (1499–1546) -
was influenced by Henry Fuseli Swiss born British painter, draughtsman and writer on art (1741–1825) -
was influenced by Jakob Böhme German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624) -
was influenced by James Barry Irish painter (1741–1806) -
was influenced by John Milton English poet and civil servant (1608–1674) -
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was influenced by Mary Wollstonecraft English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
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Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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24 statements on this record
- 16 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 8 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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