Benjamin Robert Haydon has been featured in articles for Art in America, Apollo and The Paris Review. The most recent article is The National Portrait Gallery to Loan Six Portraits of the Nation's ...

The story is one of tragedy. Or perhaps tragi-comedy. The 19th-century Devonian painter Benjamin Robert Haydon wanted above all things to be remembered for his huge canvases of great and enduring ...

“On December 28, 1817,” writes Stanley Plumly, “the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosts what he refers to in his diaries and ‘Autobiography’ as the ‘immortal dinner.’ The stated ...

THREE days after Christmas 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon, an artist, held a dinner party in the painting-room of his shabby-grand quarters in Lisson Grove. The four principal guests were old ...