Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Samuel Rogers, 23 May 1830
‘King’s Bench: 23rd May, 1830.
‘Oh, Mr. Rogers,
my family are absolutely in danger of wanting food. I have paid 700l. since 1827, and this does not satisfy my creditors.
Do I not deserve employment and aid?
‘For God’s sake help me, and I will paint an
equivalent as soon as I begin, for any aid given me now at such
a crisis. Indeed, my brain begins to get
bewildered at this repeated torture.
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)
English historical painter and diarist who recorded anecdotes of romantic writers and the
physiognomy of several in his paintings.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).