Benjamin Robert Haydon
(1786-1846), History painter and diaristSitter in 10 portraits
Artist associated with 34 portraits
The history painter Haydon was intensely ambitious and opinionated. He studied under the artist Fuseli. He was an ardent campaigner for public patronage of the arts and for the purchase of the Elgin Marbles in 1816. A friend of Wordsworth, Keats and Lamb, Haydon was convinced of his own towering genius, but apart from a couple of successes, his career as a history painter was ultimately a failure. Unwilling to compromise his ideals, he was endlessly in debt and was driven to suicide in 1846.
Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats
by John Keats, and Benjamin Robert Haydon
pen and ink, 1816
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by Benjamin Robert Haydon
pen and ink, 1816
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by Elkington & Co, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
electrotype of life-mask, 1884, based on a work of 1816
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by T. Sampson, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1828, based on a work of 1816
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by Benjamin Robert Haydon
pencil, 1816
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by Benjamin Robert Haydon
chalk, 1818
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by John Lucas, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on millboard, feigned oval, circa 1853, based on a work of 1824
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Napoléon Bonaparte ('Napoléon on St Helena')
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, before 1846, based on a work of 1830
On display in Room 10 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Benjamin Robert Haydon
pencil, 1834
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Duke of Wellington Surveying the Field of Waterloo')
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1839
On display in Room 10 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Bt
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
chalk, 1840
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The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1841
On display in Room 12 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on millboard, circa 1845
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by W. Baldry, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s (1842)
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'David Wilkie arguing with some apprehension he will get the worst of it' (Sir David Wilkie)
by Charles Blair Leighton, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
lithograph, (1807)
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Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats
by Arthur Dawson, after John Keats, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
photograph, before 1934 (1816)
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by Arthur Dawson, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
photograph, before 1934 (1816)
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
by Benjamin Robert Haydon, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, published by Thomas McLean
lithograph, published 1 June 1833
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The Reform Banquet at Guildhall, July 11th 1832
by William Bromley, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
etching, 1835
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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ('Shall I Resign?')
by George Raphael Ward, printed by Dixon & Ross, published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
mezzotint, published 1 February 1836
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'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840)
by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
lithograph, circa 1846-1864 (1841)
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'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840)
by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
lithograph, circa 1846-1864 (1841)
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'The Abolition of the Slave Trade' (The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840)
by John Alfred Vinter, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
lithograph, circa 1846-1864 (1841)
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by and published by Thomas Goff Lupton, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
mezzotint, published 1 November 1848 (1842)
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Charles Edward Wagstaff, printed by W. Hatton, published by Thomas McLean, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
mezzotint, published 1 October 1852
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Key to The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
list of sitters in the picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon
letterpress, 1880
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Key to The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
list of sitters in the picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon
letterpress, 1880
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Key to The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
list of sitters in the picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon
letterpress, 1880
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Key to The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
list of sitters in the picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon
letterpress, 1880
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Key to The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
list of sitters in the picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon
letterpress, 1880
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