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Lectures On Painting and Design, Volume 1

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Haydon, Benjamin Robert

▪ English painter and writer
born Jan. 25, 1786, Plymouth, Devon, Eng.
died June 22, 1846, London

      English historical painter and writer, whose Autobiography has proved more enduring than his painting.

 The son of a Plymouth bookseller, Haydon went to London to attend the Royal Academy schools. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1807, but because of subsequent quarrels most of his later paintings were shown at private exhibitions. Haydon's ambition was to become the greatest historical painter England had ever known, and he went on to produce a series of stiffly heroic canvases on such biblical and classical subjects as “The Death of Dentatus” (1809), “The Judgment of Solomon” (1814), “Christ's Entry into Jerusalem” (1820), and “The Raising of Lazarus” (1823). His depictions of the contemporary English scene in “Mock Election” (1827) and “Punch or May Day” (1829) show flashes of humour, however, and his portrait of “Wordsworth” (1842; National Portrait Gallery, London) is an incisive character study.

      Haydon's financial incompetence and disappointed artistic ambitions finally ruined him. He was constantly in debt and eventually committed suicide.

      His stormy career, down to 1821, is recorded in his Autobiography, which, with a selection from his journals covering the rest of his life, was published in 1853. The complete text of his Diary was published 1960–63. Haydon's acquaintance among literary people was extensive, and intimate glimpses of celebrated individuals enliven his writings, for he had a keen eye for character and a striking gift of phrase. Haydon wrote the article on painting for the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and his Lectures on Paintings and Design was published in 1846. Though sternly committed as a visual artist to a Neoclassical ideal (embodied in the Elgin Marbles that he so admired), Haydon inadvertently wrote a masterpiece of self-revealing Romantic autobiography.

Additional Reading
Alethea Hayter, A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 (1965, reissued 1992); Eric George, The Life and Death of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, 2nd ed. (1967); David Blayney Brown, Robert Woof, and Stephen Hebron, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846 (1996).

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Источник: Haydon, Benjamin Robert

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