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Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) 
Professions: Historical-scenes painter; Portrait painter; Painter
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Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)
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Attributed to Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873)
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WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850, poet, Poet Laureate)
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SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832)-- Benjamin Robert HAYDON (1786-1846). Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
Biography: Haydon
(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 Reynolds’s 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 his friend David Wilkie, became interested in anatomy, attending lectures given by the anatomist and surgeon Charles Bell in 1806.
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