BLAKE, WILLIAM

(1757-1827), Eng. poet, mystic, and engraver; s. of a small mdon hosier; apprenticed at the age of 14 to an engraver; engraving remained his chief occupation for life. At the age of 25 he married Catherine Boucher, the good genius of his life, an educated woman, whom he taught to print and color his engravings. At the age of 14, B. wrote the exquisite lyric beginning, ‘How sweet I roamed from field to field.’ His Songs of Innocence appeared in 1789; and Songs of Experience in 1794— the poems and decorations being engraved by B. himself. His mystical works include The Book of Thel (ris 2 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790),. The Gates of Paradise (1794), and The Song of Los (1795). + BLAKE LOCK, RALPH ALBERT (1847-1916), an Amer. painter. Graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1869. Self educated as to art, he gained a wide reputation as a landscape artist. Among the best examples of his art are Clover dale, California; Moonlight; On the Face of the Quiet Water, and Cumule. The Metroolitan Museum of Art, New York, and he Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. contain some of his best pictures. The National Academy made him an A ociate member in 1913 and an AcademiCian in 1915.