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Correspondence and Table-Talk - With a Memoir by his Son (Paperback)
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Correspondence and Table-Talk - With a Memoir by his Son (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture, Volume 1
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Artist, diarist, and devotee of the Elgin Marbles, Benjamin Robert
Haydon (1786-1846) is best known for his large-scale paintings,
such as Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and The Raising of Lazarus.
After he entered the Royal Academy in 1805 as a student of Henry
Fuseli, his forthright views and combative manner fuelled a feud
with the institution and perceived enemies. His unshakeable belief
in his own genius and his unwillingness to compromise his artistic
standards drew him ever further into debt, which ultimately
contributed to his suicide. As a writer, Haydon's acute eye for the
humorous is demonstrated throughout his correspondence and diary.
In this two-volume work, first published in 1876, his son Frederick
Wordsworth Haydon (1827-86) brings together letters and extracts
from his father's journals. Volume 1 opens with Frederick's
biography of his father, followed by general correspondence to and
from many eminent figures of the age.
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