Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter: From his Autobiography and Journals

di Benjamin Robert Haydon (Autore)

Tom Taylor (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2014

Before the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) committed suicide, he had left instructions that an account of his life should be published, using his autobiography up to 1820 and his letters and journals for the rest. The writer and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80) took on the editing, and the three-volume work was published in 1853. (The slightly enlarged second edition, also of 1853, is reissued here.) Haydon was a history painter at a time when that genre was perceived as the greatest form of the art, and his friends included Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. However, he was constantly in financial difficulties, and in later life a sense of failure seems to have turned into outright paranoia. Volume 1 reproduces Haydon's autobiographical writings up to 1820. His Conversations and Table-Talk, edited in two volumes by his son, is also reissued in this series.

• Autore: Benjamin Robert Haydon
• Curatore: Tom Taylor
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 444 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 560 gr.
• EAN: 9781108073790

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