Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), History painter and diarist
Sitter 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.
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, circa 1811
On display at Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
NPG 293
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
plaster cast of lifemask, 1815
NPG 2020
Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats
by John Keats, and Benjamin Robert Haydon
pen and ink, 1816
NPG 3250
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
plaster cast of life-mask, 1816
NPG 686
by Elkington & Co, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
electrotype of life-mask, 1884 (1816)
On display at Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
NPG 686b
by T. Sampson, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1828 (1816)
NPG 686a
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, (1830)
NPG 6266
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
pencil, 1834
NPG 3784
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1839
NPG 6265
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Bt
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
chalk, 1840
NPG 3782
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1841
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 599
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1842
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1857
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on millboard, circa 1845
On display at Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
NPG 268
by John Lucas, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on millboard, feigned oval, circa 1853 (1824)
NPG 404
by W. Baldry, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s (1842)
NPG Ax46229
'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)
NPG D7632
Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats
by Arthur Dawson, after John Keats, after Benjamin Robert Haydon
photograph, before 1934 (1816)
NPG D36763
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
Place
Devon
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