The Last Supper
William Blake
1799
Medium
tempera on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 30.5 x 48.2 cm (12 x 19 in.) framed: 38.1 x 55.3 x 3.8 cm (15 x 21 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1954.13.1
About the Artist
William Blake · 1757–1827
William Blake (1757–1827) stands as one of the most visionary and unconventional artists in British history, a poet-painter-printmaker whose mystical imagination and radical vision profoundly shaped the Romantic movement. Born in London's Soho district, Blake experienced visions from childhood—claiming to see angels in trees at age eight—and these spiritual encounters would guide his art throughou...