B. Haydon pinx.t. Thomson sculp.
[Published by Henry Colburn, c.1840.]
Stipple. Sheet 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed within plate.
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), history painter and diarist. A friend of Wordsworth, Keats and Lamb, Haydon was convinced of his own towering genius but, apart from a couple of successes, his career as a history painter was ultimately a failure. Unwilling to compromise his ideals, he was endlessly in debt and was driven to suicide in 1846.
[Ref: 51288]  £75.00