William Blake and the Present

30 Apr 2026 6.30-7.45pm

William Blake, Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils, c.1826. Tate, Presented by Miss Mary H. Dodge through the Art Fund 1918. Photo: Tate.

Overview

A free talk with Dr Esther Chadwick Head of the History of Art Department, Courtauld Institute.

In this talk, Dr Esther Chadwick will examine how William Blake engaged with the politics, society and art of his contemporary world. In their often strange intermixing of past, present and future, Blake's works helps us think through the question of what it meant to be a truly ‘contemporary’ artist around the year 1800.

Dr Esther Chadwick is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art and the Head of the History of Art Department at The Courtauld Institute, London.

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