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Haydon began writing it, working from recollection and from the journals he kept throughout his life, in 1842. His suicide at the age of sixty cut short the writing, but the rest of his life can ...
The painter Benjamin R. Haydon (1786–1846) encountered the Parthenon sculptures in 1808, studied them for several years, and recorded how he came to pronounce them ‘the finest things on earth’. I describe the maturation of Haydon's judgement, presenting the process as revealing of the nature of taste judgements.
Benjamin Robert Haydon. English, 1786-1846. Follow. 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.
Benjamin Haydon (26 janvier 1786 à Plymouth (Royaume-Uni) - 22 juin 1846) est un peintre anglais. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Haydon s'installe à Londres à 18 ans et y devient élève de Johann Heinrich Füssli ainsi que l'ami de David Wilkie .
Benjamin Robert Haydon fue un pintor inglés que se especializó en grandes pinturas históricos, aunque también pintó algunos temas contemporáneos y retratos. Su éxito comercial se vio perjudicado por su falta de tacto con los clientes y por la escala enorme de los cuadros que creaba. Mantuvo problemas financieros a lo largo de toda su vida, lo que le provocó varios encarcelamiento por ...
soldier (1,204) trading and commercial (1,154) coachman (22) sailor (121) trader (245) ‘Punch or May Day‘, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1829 on display at Tate Britain.
Historical painter and diarist. Born Plymouth. Not a successful man; Haydon's biographer, Paul O'Keefe, says that Haydon has been called 'the William McGonagall of British painting'. One morning after buying a pistol he returned to 14 Burwood Place, locked himself in his painting room and was later found there, dead. The death certificate says that he committed 'suicide with a razor by cutting ...
