A genius for failure: the life of Benjamin Robert Haydon

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*Only his third attempt , another cut to the throat which sprayed blood across his unfinished canvas, was successful. He died face-down before the bespattered 'Alfred and the First British Jury', his final bid 'to improve the taste of the English people' through the High Art of historical painting.

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