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Portrait head of Benjamin Robert Haydon

Maker

(artist)
1787-1819

Title

Portrait head of Benjamin Robert Haydon

Date of Production

1816

Medium

black and red chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 18 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.548

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£4.25); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

British Portraits, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1956-7

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932

Literature

British Portraits, Royal Academy, London, 1956-57
no. 694

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 25

George, Eric Beardsworth, The life and death of Benjamin Robert Haydon, London, 1948
Illus. frontispiece ...More

Huxley, Aldous, The olive tree, and other essays, London, 1936
pp. 239, 242

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 132
Illus. repr.

Holmes, Charles, 'Neglected English masters' [Reivew of the Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition] in 'The Burlington Magazine', Jun. 1932 - pp. 300-03 and 306-07; 60, 351
p. 302

Huxley, Aldous, The autobiography and memoirs of Benjamin Robert Haydon, London, 1926
in Introduction
Illus. repr. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, left: "J BUDGEN / 1813".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black chalk, signed and dated: "BR Haydon 1816"; lower right, black chalk: "GHH". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "54"; lower left, graphite: "548. Repr. as frontis. to / "The Autob. of B.R. Haydon / 1926 Pub P. Davies London. Rd. A. Auxley / Exh. BM FAC. 1932"; lower right, graphite, circled: "21"; lower right, graphite: "173". Mount (removed, cut down and now in object file): graphite: "Reproduced as Frontispiece / to 'The Autobiography + Memoirs / of Benjamin Robert Haydon _ 1926 / pub. P. Davies _ London Ed. A. Huxley".

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