William Blake’s Daddy Issues

By Aidan Harte | April 3, 2026
The social circle of the painter Joshua Reynolds was remarkable even by the clubbable standards of Georgian London. Goldsmith, Fox, and Garrick were chums. Boswell dedicated a book to Reynolds. Edmund Burke executed his will. Having revolutionised British art education by founding the Royal Academy of Arts, he died in 1792, knighted and rich as a hog. He lives on…Read More