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ORGANIZER:Royal Academy of Arts
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DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) was the most controversial a
 rtist of his day. A self-styled ‘genius’ and the scourge of the Royal A
 cademy\, he was determined to revive the flagging fortunes of British histo
 ry painting. Anatomy was the lynchpin of all Haydon’s art and theory. The
  Body Politic brings together a selection of his dramatic drawings from the
  Academy collection\, charting his progress from anatomical textbooks to di
 ssections. Haydon prized these studies\, using them to teach his pupils and
  as the basis for his lectures on art.
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\nToday\, Haydon is remembered fo
 r his engaging diaries and as a friend of Wordsworth and Keats. In his life
 time\, his grandiose paintings incited considerable interest. However\, Hay
 don’s passionate\, uncompromising temperament alienated supporters and ev
 ery unsold painting plunged him further into debt. Eventually\, worn down b
 y decades of struggle\, he committed suicide on 22nd June 1846 in front of 
 an unfinished canvas
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SUMMARY:The Body Politic: Anatomical Drawings by Benjamin Robert Haydon
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LOCATION:Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House Tennant Room
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