(Haydon) George, Eric

The life and death of Benjamin Robert Haydon historical painter 1786-1846. Second edition with additions by Dorothy George.

Oxford, Clarendon Press 1967.

Reference: 10909
Price: £14 [convert currency]

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8vo. xii + (2) + 400pp, 20 photo plates including frontispiece. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper worn at edges). Jill Allibone’s copy, with her bookplate and acquisition date 11 May 1977.

Good biographical study of the painter Benjamin Haydon, first published in 1948, but much improved for the present edition by the rediscovery of Haydon’s own journals.