Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter
Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter
Tom Taylor
£36.00
GBPBefore the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846) committed suicide, he had left instructions that an account of his life should be published, using his autobiography up to 1820 and his letters and journals for the rest. The writer and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817–80) took on the editing, and the three-volume work was published in 1853. (The slightly enlarged second edition, also of 1853, is reissued here.) Haydon was a history painter at a time when that genre was perceived as the greatest form of the art, and his friends included Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. However, he was constantly in financial difficulties, and in later life a sense of failure seems to have turned into outright paranoia. Volume 1 reproduces Haydon's autobiographical writings up to 1820. His Conversations and Table-Talk, edited in two volumes by his son, is also reissued in this series.
Product details
May 2014Paperback
9781108073790
444 pages
216 × 140 × 25 mm
0.56kg
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Table of Contents
- Editor's preface to the second edition
- Editor's preface to the first edition
- Introduction
- Part I:
- 1. Birth and parentage
- 2. I go to London
- 3. My fellow students
- 4. Visit from Sir G. Beaumont
- 5. I practise portrait-painting
- Part II:
- 6. My difficulties with Dentatus
- 7. Dinners at the Admiralty
- 8. Trip to Devon with Wilkie
- 9. Commission from Sir G. Beaumont
- 10. Prince Hoare's opinion of my conduct
- 11. My pecuniary difficulties
- 12. My intimates in 1813
- Part III:
- 13. My triumph
- 14. The freedom of Plymouth voted me
- 15. From my journals of 1815
- 16. Letter from Wordsworth
- 17. I fall in love
- 18. A commission from Russia.
