
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Sold for £8,125 inc. premium
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Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, 15 November 1991, lot 140
Benjamin Robert Haydon was the last major English painter in the historical grand style of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West. His passion in this respect was first fired by Reynolds's Discourses. After an unhappy apprenticeship to his father, who was a printer and publisher, he entered the Royal Academy in London in 1805, where he was an enthusiastic student, who, like his friend, David Wilkie, became interested in anatomy, attending lectures given by the anatomist and surgeon, Charles Bell in 1806.