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Benjamin Haydon: A Life in Pictures
City College Plymouth
Kings Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 5QG
Kings Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 5QG
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About us
Born in Plymouth, Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) was a painter who specialised in grand historical pictures.Although Haydon sold works to Kings and Prime Ministers, his commercial success was damaged by his dealings with patrons, acrimonious relations with the art establishment and the enormous scale of his preferred work.
He was friends with Romantic poets John Keats and William Wordsworth, lambasted by writer Charles Dickens and dogged by financial problems throughout his adult life.
Haydon, who died a gruesome death when committing suicide in 1846, has continued to fascinate since his early demise.
Stage and screen representations include Leonard Rossiter playing Haydon in a West End play in 1977, and Martin Savage portraying the artist in the 2014 film, Mr. Turner.
The lecture is given by Owen Ryles, Chief Executive of the Plymouth Athenaeum, an organisation of which Haydon was an early member.
Owen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an alumnus of Plymouth College of Art.
His previous talks include "Plastic Piet: Mondrian's life in shapes" and "Charles Hamilton Smith: Writer, Illustrator, Solider, Spy".
Entry is free. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/benjamin-haydon-a-life-in-pictures-tickets-124124763509
