#benjamin robert haydon

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, or Wellington Musing on the Field of Waterloo by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1839)

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▪︎ Musculature and bones of the lumbar spine, pelvis and thighs.

Artist/Maker: Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)

Date : 28 June 1805

Medium: Red and black ink with grey, brown and red washes on off-white paper.

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Benjamin Robert after Haydon - Marcus Curtius.

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John Keats, from a letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

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A sketch of the Romantic poet John Keats made by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1816.

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Napoleon musing at St Helena and Wellington musing on the Field of Waterloo by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)

(My photo)

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The Romantic Writers at Christmas Time…

From Mary and Percy Shelley’s shared journal, December 1814.

Saturday, December 24 (Mary).—Read View of French Revolution. Walk out with Shelley, and spend a dreary morning waiting for him at Mr. Peacock’s. In the evening Hogg comes. I like him better each time; it is a pity that he is a lawyer; he wasted so much time on that trash that might be spent on better things.

Sunday, December 25.—Christmas Day. Have a very bad side-ache in the morning, so I rise late. Charles Clairmont comes and dines with us. In the afternoon read Miss Baillie’s plays. Hogg spends the evening with us; conversation, as usual.

Monday, December 26 (Percy).—The sweet Maie asleep; leave a note with her. Walk with Clara to Pike’s, etc. Go to Hampstead and look for a house; we return in a return-chaise; find that Laurence has arrived, and consult for Mary; she has read Miss Baillie’s plays all day. Mary better this evening. Shelley very much fatigued; sleeps all the evening. Read Candide.

Claire Clairmont to her step-sister Mary Shelley - July 22 1828

Toeplitz is a charming place — how much I should have enjoyed it if we had been together. As you have now a settled income, you might come and spend some time in Dresden, if you could resolve upon quitting Percy for some time. I saw but little of Dresden — but it is cheap — I wish you would come and spend untill Christmas with me in Dresden and then we would return together for the holidays to London. Now do pray think of it. It is time after so much sorrow that we should have a little pleasure.

John Keats to Benjamin Robert Haydon - January 10 1818

My dear Haydon—I should have seen you ere this, but on account of my sister being in Town: so that when I have sometimes made ten paces towards you, Fanny has called me into the City; and the Christmas Holydays are your only time to see Sisters, that is if they are so situated as mine.

John Keats to his sister Fanny Keats - December 20 1819

My dear Fanny—When I saw you last, you ask’d me whether you should see me again before Christmas. You would have seen me if I had been quite well. I have not, though not unwell enough to have prevented me—not indeed at all—but fearful lest the weather should affect my throat which on exertion or cold continually threatens me.—By the advice of my Doctor I have had a warm great Coat made and have ordered some thick shoes—so furnish’d I shall be with you if it holds a little fine before Christmas day.

Lord Byron to his half-sister Augusta Byron - November 11th 1804

I am in great hopes, that at Christmas I shall be with Mr. Hanson during the vacation, I shall do all I can to avoid a visit to my mother wherever she is. It is the first duty of a parent, to impress precepts of obedience in their children, but her method is so violent, so capricious, that the patience of Job, the versatility of a member of the House of Commons could not support it.

Lord Byron to Hargreaves Hanson - November 12th 1805

I hope all the family are in a convalescent State. I shall see you at Christmas (if I live) as I propose passing the Vacation, which is only a Month, in London.

John Keats to his brothers George and Thomas Keats - December 22 1817

Brown and Dilke walked with me and back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakspeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. Shelley’s poem is out and there are words about its being objected to, as much as Queen Mab was. Poor Shelley I think he has his Quota of good qualities, in sooth la! Write soon to your most sincere friend and affectionate Brother, John.

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Benjamin Robert Haydon. Part 4.

The sad ending to life. In the previous blog I told you about Benjamin Haydon’s trip to Paris with his friend David Wilkie.   The journey began at the end of May 1814 when the pair were able to take advantage of the ending of hostilities between England and France.  Whilst in the French capital the two artists spent time at the Louvre  and see the art collections gathered by Napoleon from across…

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John Keats in a letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon / Nine Inch Nails – The Way Out Is Through

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9/25/22

"I will clamber through the Clouds and exist." - John Keats, letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon (1818)

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Punch-and-Judy show

An English Punch-and-Judy show, detail from Punch or May Day, oil on canvas by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1829; in the Tate Britain, London.

Source: puppetry - Types of Puppets | Britannica

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Fine Arts & Cinema (Part 3)

- From left to right- 

 1- 🎨Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801), Jacques-Louis David 🎞️Marie Antoinette (2006), Sophia Coppola

2- 🎨El Jaleo (1882), John Singer Sargent 🎞️The Alamo (1960), John Wayne

3- 🎨The Birth of Venus (c. 1486), Botticelli 🎞️The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Terry Gilliam

4- 🎨Napoleon Bonaparte Musing at St. Helena (1842), Benjamin Robert Haydon 🎞️The Duellists (1977), Ridley Scott

5- 🎨The Surrender of Breda (1634-1635), Diago Velazquez 🎞️Alatriste (2006), Agustín Díaz Yanes

6- 🎨At The Hanging Rock (1875), William Ford 🎞️Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Peter Weir

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Waiting for the Times   -    Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1831.

British, 1786-1846

Oil on canvas,  33 x 30 cm.

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I love my own silent, studious, midnight ways. I hate the glare, the vulgarity, and the herd. The solitary majesty of High Art is gone now. There was a time when its dangerous glories frightened the coward and alarmed the conceited. Then, it was a single and solitary flame. Now, the paltry flicker of farthing candles dims its steady fire and obscures its splendor.

Benjamin Robert Haydon, April 3rd 1845

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Milton and His Daughters at the Organ (c.1839). Benjamin Robert Haydon (English, 1786-1846). Oil on canvas. Guildhall Art Gallery.

17th-century English poet John Milton, being blind, dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters. Here Milton plays at the organ while one daughter stands behind him and the other sits and writes, presumably transcribing her father’s words.

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Napoleon musing on Saint Helena and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (looking at field of Waterloo) by Benjamin Robert Haydon (commons.wikimedia.com)