Author: George, Eric
Title: The Life And Death Of Benjamin Robert Haydon ; Historical Painter 1786 - 1846
Description: Oxford University Press, 1967, 2nd edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. xiv+400pp, b/w frontis, 19pp b/w plates, index, spine of the slightly grubby dustjacket browned, otherwise a near fine copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A biography of the English painter Benjamin Robert Haydon [ 1786 - 1846 ] who specialised in grand historical pictures. This second edition of the book contains an extra six chapters based upon Haydon's diaries which were published in full in between 1960 - 1963.

Keywords: biography, art, british art, fine art, painting