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Richard Dadd (August 1 1817 – January 7 1886) was a Victorian painter 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 incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital.
His aptitude for drawing was evident at an early age, leading to his admission to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 20. With William Powell Frith, Augustus Egg, Henry O'Neil and others, he founded The Clique, of which he was generally considered the leading talent.
During a trip to the Middle East and Europe in 1842, Dadd became progressively less rational and increasingly violent, believing himself to be under the influence of the Egyptian god Osiris. His condition was initially thought to be sunstroke.
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There's still Egon Schiele, Richard Dadd, Cecily Brown, Georgia O'Keeffe to think about..... I'm running out of words!
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There's still Egon Schiele, Richard Dadd, Cecily Brown, Georgia O'Keeffe to think about..... I'm running out of words!
Richard Dadd - Biography and all his major paintings at ArtMagick.
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