. Benjamin Robert Haydon : correspondence and table-talk ; with a memoir by his son Frederic Wordsworth Haydon . d in a room you couldnot swing a cat in, he must have thought of his own abundanceof commissions and wealth, and of his own superb palace atKome, as he pressed Haydon warmly by the hand, and said tohim, in a tone there was no mistaking the meaning of, Yenez,venez a Kome! vous y verrez la veritable democratic deIart! by which, says Eastlake, he meaned an aristocracy ofartists that was of a better kind than Haydon had to dealwith in England. Haydon must often have recalled the words o
. Benjamin Robert Haydon : correspondence and table-talk ; with a memoir by his son Frederic Wordsworth Haydon . d in a room you couldnot swing a cat in, he must have thought of his own abundanceof commissions and wealth, and of his own superb palace atKome, as he pressed Haydon warmly by the hand, and said tohim, in a tone there was no mistaking the meaning of, Yenez,venez a Kome! vous y verrez la veritable democratic deIart! by which, says Eastlake, he meaned an aristocracy ofartists that was of a better kind than Haydon had to dealwith in England. Haydon must often have recalled the words of Canova, and,for his own reputations sake, regretted he did not follow theirjcounsel. In England, however, he elected to remain, with many mis-|givings I feel sure. For it was but a forlorn hope at the best,and his reward was what we shall see—even the patronage ofDuke of Mantua would have been preferable.* The * Kaising of Lazarus was the next picture of his series * The Duke of Mantua, of Rubenss day, could find no better employment forRubens than to engage him to mak« copies of the old masters.— first sk^uJv for the R^ure of Lazaruj:ISW. B. R. HAYDON. 119 Haydon decided to paint. Ho ordered a canvas 19 feet lonp^by 15 feet high, and, as usual, with little or no money left,began the third of his great works of this j)eriod. 8ir George l>eaumont, with whom he had now made u]) liisdifferences—Sir George taking the ]\lacbeth for two hundredguineas—wrote to Haydon a letter of the warmest congratula-tions upon his success with the exhibition, at least, of theJerusalem. But he adds a closing paragraph of friendlywarning, which appears to mo to contain an allusion to ]\\iyne Knight and his recent behaviour: Paint down yourenemies, says Sir George, rather than attempt to writethem down, which will only multiply them, and believe methat no man is so insignificant as not to stand a chance ofhaving it in his power to do you a serious injury at some timeor other. Hay
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