Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)
Professions:
Historical-scenes painter;
Portrait painter;
Painter
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(b
Plymouth,
25
Jan
1786;
d
London,
22
June
1846).
English
painter,
teacher
and
writer.
The
son
of
a
printer
and
publisher,
Haydon
was
educated
at
grammar
schools
in
Plymouth
and
Plympton.
Joshua
Reynoldss
Discourses
fired
his
passion
for
history
painting,
while
a
Neapolitan
employee
of
his
father
fostered
his
talent
for
drawing.
After
an
unhappy
apprenticeship
to
his
father,
he
entered
the
Royal
Academy,
London,
in
1805.
He
was
an
enthusiastic
student
who,
like
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