Rerun of Blake’s art exhibition

WILLIAM BLAKE’S first solo art exhibition is to be re-staged, reuniting nine of the surviving works 200 years after they went on show.

The original and only one-man exhibition in May 1809 was Blake’s most significant attempt to create a public reputation for himself as a painter, according to Tate Britain, which is staging the event.

Blake (1757-1827) was a poet, printmaker and artist whose work was overlooked by many.