Dec 31, 2009

The Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon | The Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon

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Author: Benjamin Robert Haydon
First Published: 1853
Type of Work: Memoir
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
Subjects: Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, London, Painting or painters, Romanticism, Hellenism

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It is one of fate’s curious tricks that as Benjamin Robert Haydon’s reputation as a historical painter has diminished since his lifetime, the estimation of his writings has risen correspondingly. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the years principally covered by the AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Haydon’s friends gave encouragement and much-needed financial assistance to his efforts to bring England to an appreciation of the ideals of High Art, which to Haydon meant historical painting on an epic, Raphaelesque scale. His excursions with the pen,...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon | The Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon

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