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Richard Dadd

1817–1886

Wandering Musicians c.1878
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Biography

Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals.

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Artworks

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  • Bacchanalian Scene

    Richard Dadd
    1862
  • A Turk

    Richard Dadd
    1863
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  • The Pilot Boat

    Richard Dadd
    1858–9
  • The Flight out of Egypt

    Richard Dadd
    1849–50
  • The Child’s Problem

    Richard Dadd
    1857
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  • The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

    Richard Dadd
    1855–64
  • Portrait of a Young Man

    Richard Dadd
    1853
  • Wandering Musicians

    Richard Dadd
    c.1878

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    Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum

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    Why I Love: Richard Dadd's The Flight out of Egypt

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