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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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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Richard Dadd The Flight out of Egypt
1849–50 -
Richard Dadd The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
1855–64 -
Richard Dadd Portrait of a Young Man
1853 -
Richard Dadd The Child’s Problem
1857 -
Richard Dadd A Turk
1863 -
Richard Dadd The Pilot Boat
1858–9 -
Richard Dadd Wandering Musicians
c.1878
Film and audio
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Podcast
The Art of Slow Looking
What happens when we spend time getting to know a single artwork in detail?
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Talking Point
Why I Love: Richard Dadd's The Flight out of Egypt
Hear our staff talk about their favourite artworks
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TateShots
Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum
Murder, insanity and painting – discover the fascinating story of artist Richard Dadd
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Listen
Poem of the Month: Clare Pollard
This November Clare Pollard presents her poem, based on Richard Dadd’s The Fairy-Feller’s Master Stroke, 1855-64, currently on display at …
Features
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Tate Etc
Between terror and ecstasy: Artistic hallucination
Stories of hallucinations in art and literature date back to the Bible, but the idea of the artistic hallucination is …
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Art Term
The Clique
The Clique was an informal society formed in around 1837 by a group of friends while they were students at …
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Art Term
Fairy painting
Fairy painting is particularly associated with the Victorian period, art that depicts fairies and other subjects from the supernatural
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Tate Etc
Tate Etc. issue 23: Autumn 2011
Tate Etc. Issue 23 Autumn 2011, online edition of Tate's magazine -
Tate Etc
Away with the fairies: Richard Dadd
The Victorian artist is best known for two things: murdering his father, and painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke while incarcerated …
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Tate Etc
Colour me British: Watercolour I
Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to …
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Tate Papers
The Psychiatric Sublime: The Sublime Object
This paper examines images relating to therapies for mental illness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Seeking to …
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Tate Etc
MicroTate 13
Microtate, Tate Etc issue 13; Pae White, Peter Schjeldahl, Vincent Katz and Mary Richards -
Tate Etc
Tate Etc. issue 13: Summer 2008
TATE ETC Issue 13 Summer 2008: Visiting and revisiting Art, etcetera; online edition of Tate's magazine -
Tate Etc
Extraordinary scenes of beautifully arranged horrible wilderness
British Orientalist Painting
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