Benjamin Haydon. Image source · Public domain
The people behind the art
1786 to 1846
Haydon was a British history painter and diarist who campaigned for public support of the arts. He studied under Henry Fuseli and pursued ambitious historical subjects on a large scale. His extensive diaries record his artistic struggles and his friendships with writers including Wordsworth, Keats and Lamb.
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Artist: Benjamin Robert Haydon
A horseman throws himself into a dark chasm, his white horse rearing above the void. The scene is ancient Roman legend, painted by the nineteenth-century British history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, a man whose own life ended in catastrophe. This draft explores the painting's visible drama and the story it tells, and asks what it means when an artist's subject echoes his own fate.
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