Benjamin Robert Haydon
(1786-1846), History painter and diaristRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 10 portraits
Artist associated with 34 portraits
The history painter Haydon was intensely ambitious and opinionated. He studied under the artist Fuseli. He was an ardent campaigner for public patronage of the arts and for the purchase of the Elgin Marbles in 1816. A friend of Wordsworth, Keats and Lamb, Haydon was convinced of his own towering genius, but apart from a couple of successes, his career as a history painter was ultimately a failure. Unwilling to compromise his ideals, he was endlessly in debt and was driven to suicide in 1846.
by Sir David Wilkie
black and white chalk, 1815
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Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats
by John Keats, and Benjamin Robert Haydon
pen and ink, 1816
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by Unknown artist
plaster cast of life-mask, circa 1820
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by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on millboard, circa 1845
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by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after Sir David Wilkie
etching, (1815)
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by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after John Philip Davis ('Pope' Davis)
etching, (1816)
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Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats
by Arthur Dawson, after John Keats, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
photograph, before 1934 (1816)
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by James Thomson (Thompson), published by Henry Colburn
stipple engraving, published 1 December 1820
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