Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon Historical Painter From His Autobiography And J
Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon Historical Painter From His Autobiography And J
Benjamin Robert Haydon
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— my coal merchant. Came home very tired ; lunched ; set to work. Dearest Mary sat, and before dinner I finished the female head in the Xenophon, ai:d was fairly afloat. I first thouglit of making her languid and exhansted, looking up with feeble joy ; afterwards it came into my head to make her a spirited, fine creature, with eyes sparkling at the sound of the trumpet ; in short, such a creature as would follow her lover through peril of land and w^ater. I think I have succeeded. Now I have go...t both my lay -figures to take out of pawn before I can go on. " To relieve urgent necessity, for what in studio slang is called " pot-boiling, " portraits must occasionally be painted, with whatever loathing. " 22nd. — Finished a rascally portrait, the last I have got, — a poor, pale-faced, skinny creature, v/ho was biting his lips to make them look red, rubbing up his hair and asking me if I did not think he had a good eye. My picture of Xenophon was put out of the way for the time. I could not help looking at the nape of the heroic neck.
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