English artist "cut off" memory about his wife

This was the report of vengeance, on which was capable only creative person, slave by the desire to erase memory about the wife, who, apparently, left artist. To art critic and for antiquary it was possible to find cut off half of the unfinished family portrait of the brush of the English artist OF THE XVIII century of Francis Hayman.

The newspaper The Independent reports that now, on the expiration of 300 years, two halves of picture will be reunited and advanced in the London gallery.

Experts on the painting always was surprised at Hayman's self-portrait, on whom there is no part of its feet. Philip Mould, the merchant of the works of skill from Eksetera, found answer - self-portrait was left half, and he revealed right side - leg of artist and his wife.

Mould assumes that Hayman almost finished the picture, when his marriage was decomposed, and it reduced linen two, after deciding not to leave memory about the wife.

Antiquary purchased the picture of another English artist - Thomas Gainsborough - at the auction in the American state new -X3mpwir. After the clearing of linen, he revealed the remote elbow of man in the brown trousers and female portrait.

After learning Hayman's style, it examined all reproductions of the pictures of artist and came to the conclusion that the discovered by it picture - "lost half" of self-portrait.

However, the plan of artist succeeded to erase memory about its wife from face of history. On the first wife of Hayman nothing it is unknown, furthermore that the marriage of artist was decomposed in 1735. Even name of this woman was not preserved. Although it also left not one picture with the portrait of its second wife.

Francis Hayman was one of the most prominent painters of the epoch of kings the Georg, founder of the Royal Academy of skills and teacher outstanding painter Thomas Gainsborough.