Benjamin Robert Haydon was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by the enormous scale on which he preferred to work.
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Head of Selene's horse, 1809. Black and white chalk on blue paper. British Museum, London.
Portrait of Haydon by his pupil Georgiana Zornlin, 1825
Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1842
Sketch for Meeting of the Birmingham Political Union
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Benjamin Robert Haydon
The grave of Haydon, St Mary's Cemetery, Paddington
St James' Street in an Uproar or the Quack Artist and his Assailants (1819). Satirical print aimed at Haydon (at the left in blue) and William Paulet Carey (represented by the goose behind him). Carey had criticised Haydon's charging for admission to an exhibition of eight chalk drawings.Artists born in the 1780s 6
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Benjamin Robert Haydon was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by the enormous scale on which he preferred to work. He was troubled by financial problems throughout his life, which led to several periods of imprisonment for debt.
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