Benjamin Robert Haydon

From 1832, when she began writing and editing in earnest, she entertained such figures as Benjamin Robert Haydon , Isaac D'Israeli , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and Byron's former mistress the Countess Guiccioli (who visited England...

EBB 's disembodied participation in literary and artistic society expanded as she established often voluminous correspondences with Harriet Martineau , Richard Hengist Horne , painter Benjamin Robert Haydon , and American literati such as James Russell Lowell

Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822.Benjamin Robert Haydon was another of those who painted her.

In Paris in 1829 she was sculpted by Jacques-Louis David in profile, for a medal. Eleven years later, at the Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she sat with other delegates to the convention for Benjamin Haydon

Benjamin Robert Haydon painted MRM in the mid 1820s: his portrait, now in the Reading Museum and Art Gallery , shows her plump and smiling, and (it was later complained) insufficiently genteel. John Lucas went...

A sentimental frontispiece features five putti disporting themselves in the clouds. Since the poem later refers to these as the youthful Muses who inspire, it seems that they represent HD 's children. Downing dedicated...

Carl Forrest's Faith was inspired by ML 's reading of an obituary of the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull . Bull's early deprivation of family or friends, his struggle with poverty, his determined faith in his...

Again she had Benjamin Haydon in mind in depicting her protagonist, a man with an unshakable belief, maintained throughout every kind of discouragement from the outside world, in the genius within him. Largely at her...

There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...

GP published three history books this year: Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century, B. R. Haydon and His Friends, and Old Coloured Books (on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century illustrated works).