Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography and Journals
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon Historical Painter from His Autobiography and Journals, 2
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
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Category : Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
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Category : Painting (Br)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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A Genius for Failure
Author: Paul O'KeeffePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446426580
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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* Haydon's first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain. * His second attempt also failed: a deep slash across his throat left a large pool of blood at the entrance to his studio, but he was still able to reach his easel on the opposite side of the room. *Only his third attempt, another cut to the throat which sprayed blood across his unfinished canvas, was successful. He died face-down before the bespattered 'Alfred and the First British Jury', his final bid 'to improve the taste of the English people' through the High Art of historical painting. * Such intensity, struggle and near-comic inability to succeed encapsulate Haydon's career. Thirty years before his death his huge, iconic paintings had made him the toast of early 19th-century London, drawing paying crowds to the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly for months and leading to nationwide tours. * However, his attempt to repeat such success three months before his death was to destroy him: barely a soul turned up, leaving the desperate painter alone, humiliated, and facing financial ruin. * In A Genius for Failure Paul O'Keeffe makes clear that the real tragedy of Haydon lay in the extent to which his failures were unwittingly engineered by his own actions - his refusal to resort to the painting of fashionable portraits, for example, and his self-destructively acrimonious relationship with the RA. * The company he kept - Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, among many others - and the momentous events he lived through - The Battle of Waterloo, the Coronation of George IV, and the passing of the first Parliamentary Reform Bill - make A Genius for Failure not only the definitive biography of this fascinating and tragic painter, but a stirring portrayal of an age.
Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Benjamin Robert Haydon. Correspondence and Table-talk
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385488133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, from his autobiography and journals, ed. and compiled by T. Taylor
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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