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Haydon's moment of a lifetime

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000911
Author:CLAIRE HARMAN

THE IMMORTAL DINNER: A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett

(Viking, 15.99)

ON 28 December 1817, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon had company to dinner; William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth's cousin-in-law Tom Monkhouse and the young, unknown John Keats. The occasion was partly to introduce Keats to his influential elders, partly to show off Haydon's huge half-finished canvas Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, which included portraits of Wordsworth, Keats, David Wilkie and Hazlitt. Haydon's satisfaction with both the work-in- ...

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