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Benjamin Robert Haydon
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Standard Name: Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Used Form: B. R. Haydon
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth
's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB
provided both critical contributions on Carlyle
and Tennyson
, and material gleaned from her... |
| Textual Production | George Paston | GP
published three history books this year: Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century, B. R. Haydon
and His Friends, and Old Coloured Books (on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century illustrated works). |
| Textual Features | Mary Linskill | |
| Textual Features | Mary Linskill | Again she had Benjamin Haydon
in mind in depicting her protagonist, a man with an unshakable belief, maintained throughout every kind of discouragement from the outside world, in the genius within him. Largely at her... |
| Publishing | Harriet Downing | A sentimental frontispiece features five putti disporting themselves in the clouds. Since the poem later refers to these as the youthful Muses who inspire, Downing, Harriet. Mary; or, Female Friendship. James Harper. 6 |
| Leisure and Society | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
was exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1822. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 8 Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 36 Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 106 |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Russell Mitford | Benjamin Robert Haydon
painted MRM
in the mid 1820s: his portrait, now in the Reading Museum and Art Gallery
, shows her plump and smiling, and (it was later complained) insufficiently genteel. John Lucas
went... |
| Leisure and Society | Amelia Opie | In Paris in 1829 she was sculpted by Jacques-Louis David
in profile, for a medal. Eleven years later, at the Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she sat with other delegates to the convention for Benjamin Haydon |
| Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | From 1832, when she began writing and editing in earnest, she entertained such figures as Benjamin Robert Haydon
, Isaac D'Israeli
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, and Byron's former mistress the Countess Guiccioli
(who visited England... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's disembodied participation in literary and artistic society expanded as she established often voluminous correspondences with Harriet Martineau
, Richard Hengist Horne
, painter Benjamin Robert Haydon
, and American literati such as James Russell Lowell |
Timeline
28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...
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28 December 1817
The painter Benjamin Haydon
held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats
might meet the eminent William Wordsworth
.
1841-1863: The Houses of Parliament were rebuilt in...
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1841-1863
The Houses of Parliament were rebuilt in the Gothic style by Charles Barry
and Augustus Pugin
, following their destruction by fire in October 1834.
By 18 July 1846: Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin...
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By 18 July 1846
Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin Robert Haydon
(who had killed himself in June this year) appeared in print. It put forward influential new theories of art education, state patronage, and industrial design.
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