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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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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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