BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON (1786-1846). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, IDENTIFIED AS NATHANIEL HOWARD, SCHOOLMASTER IN TAMERTON FOLIOT, DEVON. Bust length, wearing a red coat and white shirt, signed and dated `B. R. Haydon/ 1807` verso, oil on canvas 50 x 42.5cm. * The pose mirrors closely Haydon's c.1811 portrait of the poet James Henry Leigh Hunt (b.1784) (London, National Portrait Gallery). Further biographical details of the sitter are available upon request. Provenance: George Lambert MP (1866-1958) and thence by descent. *CR Scattered retouching from a 1979 restoration; small tear lower left.