The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. HAYDON.

TO TITS EDITOR OF THE MOANING HERALD.
Sir,—Nearly 20 years ago (July 9th, 1827) your journal
published an appeal, or rather a complaint of poor Haydon's,
too plainly foreshowing the destiny of his helpless and hope-
less career. At this moment, when the dead man attracts a
notice which the living could never obtain, his sad letter may
not be inaptly reprinted.
" TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.
" Sir,—ln the Literary Gazette of Saturday week was pub-
lished a report of what had been spent by the directors of the
British Gallery in favour of British artists—viz., 75,0001. in
pictures sold, 14,0001. in pictures purchased by the directors,
and 5,0001. in premiums bestowed,
"Perhaps, in my present coadition of bitter degradation,
it will not bo considered ungrateful in me to state that
never received one trulnea of the 75,000/. laid out in pictures
sold at the British gallery ; that of the 14,0001. bestowed by
the directors in purchases I have never had the honour of
receiving one shilling; and that of the 5,0001. spent in pre-
miums, only 1001. was voted as a premium. 1001. as a pre-
, mium during 23 years! That at this moment my 'Judgment
of Solomon' is rolled up in a winehouse in the Borough!
My Entry into Jerusalem,' once graced by the enthusiasm
of the rank and beauty of the three kingdoms, is doubled up
in a back room in Holborn! That my Lazarus is in an
upholsterer's shop in Mount-street ! and my Crucifixion,'
in a hayloft in Lisson-grovel
" My being unable, therefore, to meet the just demands
on me at present is not, I hope, wholly unaccounted for,
" Sir, yours,
" B. R. HAYDON.

" King's Bench Prison, July 7."
One hundred pounds in 23 years! and not a penny during
the next 191 The utilitarians to whom we vote our hundreds
of thousands of pounds, in reward for their having made their
own fortunes by railroad schemes, will piously wonder over
the suicide, whom 42 years of neglect have driven into his
desperate grave.
Long before the date of his letter to the Herald, Baydon
had been liberated from gaol as an insolvent, under which
process one of his finest pictures (a debt contracted for its gilt
frame being, I believe, in his schedule; and another, pro-
bably, for its canvas and colours), was sold to a tradesman for
less than the cost price of its materials!

4,TAA 71..

June 25, 1846.

[Surely these facts only tend the more conspicuouslyto
evidence the necessity for some sweeping reformation in el
treatment which so many of our countrymen have receiveh,
and are receiving, from the Legislature ! Delicacy alone -,
prevents us from mentioning individuals now living who
have acquired for themselves a claim upon the gratitude of
their country, but who are at this moment pining silently
and secretly, as poor Haydon pined during two and-forty
weary years of disappointment and penury, thgir great claim
unrecognised, their sufferings unappeased by the balm of
sympathy ! Delicacy, we say, though we acknowledge
it to be but a presumptive and hypothetical deli-
cacy, after all. For it arises from that morbid sensi-
tiveness,a
sl rteaar
vd ya
tiaodnd uocfe do tthweayc,o natnudmtehl ye adweaatrhdfedui
which is the usual accompaniment et
genius.t o Ch t t eWr teo nn, atvhee
labours of Hood ; we might, unhappily, extend the cata-
logue of intellectual agony threefold, but that what we have
deatha s adobrnyed a his
already observed is of itself more than sufficient. When we
findwith a nsuoclhd
nmanob l
e likewo
driven who li
to
career of misery, is there not a proof that some radical
change is requisite ? When We find less than ten thousand
procotruancttel
pounds annually appropriated to the solace of our illustrious
sufferers, shall we say that Government is acting
fairly, generously, nobly, justly ? Shall we e
.that
there is no cause for a reformation in this
Burns item
of public expenditure? If we do, another_ death couch ! An-
otherabeckon to us from his neglected
to us for a release from his em-
Goldsmith may pleadtAnother Laman Blanchard
may
em-
barrassments !
in • :dal insanity, another Haydon destroy
be incited to a suicidal
t" th vi
the midst of his unfinishedcreations—the ions— e c.
himself
our
finis of shameful and deplorable parsimony ! The shades
of these unfortunate and gifted men rebuke us for our
••difference, they call in their solemn memories for a re-
formation of this national grievance !—En. Sun.]

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