This painting is all about theatricality ... The painter Benjamin Robert Haydon was a friend to great poets who failed to achieve greatness himself. His greatest single work was his Autobiography ...

Painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon/Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 293. The first time I read Leigh Hunt's “The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit”—I must have been in college ...

The National Portrait Gallery will loan six portraits of the nation’s best-known historical characters to The Box in Plymouth from 25th September 2021 until 6th March 2022 as part of its National ...