Punch or May Day

painting by Haydon

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  • In Benjamin Robert Haydon

    …in “Mock Election” (1827) and “Punch or May Day” (1829) show flashes of humour, however, and his portrait of “Wordsworth” (1842; National Portrait Gallery, London) is an incisive character study.

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