Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Vol. 1 of 3: Historical Painter, From His Autobiography and Journals
Where all is invention, if consistency be kept high colouring is a merit; but a biography derives its sole interest or utility from its exact truth.
Every man who has suffered for a principle and would lose his life for its success, -who in his early days has been Oppressed without ever giving the slight est grounds for oppression, and persecuted to ruin be cause his oppression was unmerited, who has incurred the hatred of his enemies exactly in proportion as they became convinced they were wrong, -every man who, like me, has eaten the bitter crust of poverty, and en dured the penalties of vice and wickedness where he merited the rewards of virtue and industry, -should write his own life.
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