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4 unusual facts about Benjamin Haydon


Benjamin Haydon

In 2008, Vancouver's Touchstone Theatre premiered Influence, written by Janet Munsil and directed by Katrina Dunn.

Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor

In 1840 he attended the Anti-Slavery Convention in London where he was included in the commemorative painting by Benjamin Haydon.

Mock election in the King's Bench Prison

As I approached the unfortunate, but merry, crowd, to the last day of my life I shall ever remember the impression... baronets and bankers, authors and merchants, painters and poets... dandies of no rank in rap and tat-ters... all mingled in indiscriminate merriment, with a spiked wall, twenty feet high, above their heads..."?title=Benjamin Haydon">Benjamin Haydon.

William Paulet Carey

This was an attack on Benjamin Haydon and James Elmes: Haydon had used Annals of the Fine Arts, edited by Elmes, to accuse Carey of writing in a complimentary fashion about Benjamin West for pay.



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