Difference between revisions of "Benjamin Robert Haydon"

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<p> An English historical painter, born at Plymouth; studied at the [[Royal]] Academy, and in 1807 exhibited "Joseph and Mary resting on the Road to Egypt"; two years later occurred his memorable split with the Royal [[Academy]] over a supposed slight to his picture, "Dentatus"; "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem" brought him £1700 by exhibition, and his "Judgment of Solomon," considered his finest work, sold for 700 guineas; despite large sums obtained for "The Mock Election," "The [[Reform]] Banquet," &c., he was continually in debt, and his high-strung, sensitive temperament, smarting under imaginary slights and weary of unrealised ambitions, led him to commit suicide by shooting himself in his studio; he was an artist of great but unequal genius; he was fascinated with the [[Elgin]] Marbles, and the admiration he expressed for them contributed to persuade the [[Government]] to purchase them (1786-1846). </p>

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