He was then at work on his greatest success in 'the heroic'-- _The Raising of Lazarus_, a canvas nineteen feet long by fifteen high.

The debt was one to house decorators, for the artist had ever large ideas.

The bailiff, he tells us,[17] was so agitated at the sight of the painting of Lazarus in the studio that he cried out, 'Oh, my God! Sir, I won't arrest you.

Give me your word to meet me at twelve at the attorney's, and I'll take it.' In 1821 Haydon married, and a little later we find him again 'without a single shilling in the world--with a large picture before me not half done.' In April 1822 he is arrested at the instance of his colourman, 'with whom I had dealt for fifteen years,' and in November of the same year he is arrested again at the instance of 'a miserable apothecary.' In April 1823 we find him in the King's Bench Prison, from which he was released in July.

_The Raising of Lazarus_ meanwhile had gone to pay his upholsterer L300, and his _Christ's Entry into Jerusalem_ had been sold for L240, although it had brought him L3000 in receipts at exhibitions.