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Lot 5

Benjamin Robert Haydon
(Plymouth 1786-1846 London)
Perseus and Andromeda

6 July 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Benjamin Robert Haydon (Plymouth 1786-1846 London)

Perseus and Andromeda
oil on canvas
106.7 x 163.5cm (42 x 64 3/8in).

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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.

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