Blake, Robert (1599–1657)
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The Ancient of Days, an illustration by the English poet and painter William Blake for his poem ‘Europe, a Prophecy’. Blake was an admirer of the Italian painter Michelangelo, and his vision of God owes something to that great artist, but in Blake's own imagination the form of God is as a vision, and the compasses could also be a lightning flash.
British admiral of the Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War. Appointed ‘general-at-sea’ in 1649, the following year he destroyed Prince Rupert's privateering Royalist fleet off Cartagena, Spain. In 1652 he won several engagements against the Dutch navy. In 1654 he bombarded Tunis, the stronghold of the Barbary corsairs, and in 1657 captured the Spanish treasure fleet in Santa Cruz.
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