Abstract
This essay examines the symbiotic relationship between Leigh Hunt and Benjamin Haydon within the context of the aesthetic cultural phenomenon in the early nineteenth century. By paying special attention to the Examiner used as their debate table, this essay investigates how these Cockneys’ independent voices about blacks were against, but also nurtured and advanced, each other. First, this essay explores how Hunt and Haydon constructed a friendship based on their passion for the arts. Afterward, it examines how Hunt argued against Haydon’s anatomical sketch method based on the racial hierarchy in accordance with Hunt’s humanitarian interests in blacks. Subsequently, the essay goes on to look at how Haydon defended himself against Hunt’s attack by asserting his artistic point of view about blacks. Although re-examining the very private story of friendship between Hunt and Haydon can be viewed as narrow, this essay certainly shows us a picture of the most sociable and aesthetic cultural view of the period through their friendship.
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