Richard Dadd — who died today in 1886 — was a young British painter of huge promise who fell into mental illness while touring the Mediterranean in the early 1840s. He spent over forty years in lunatic asylums but never gave up his calling, producing mesmerisingly detailed watercolours and oil paintings of which The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (details here) is now the most well known. The picture’s history encapsulates the peculiar rise and, if not fall, then at least suspension, of its maker’s reputation, and indeed raises the question of what happens to any long-dead forgotten genius after they’ve been rediscovered. Read more in Nicholas Tromans' essay "Richard Dadd's Master Stroke" — click link in bio and search "dadd".⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #richarddadd #fairy #fairies #fairyfelersmasterstroke #illustration #painting #nut #onthisday #otd #art https://www.instagram.com/p/B7CHqqHJERv/?igshid=1ikka83wkmhmj

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Richard Dadd — who died today in 1886 — was a young British painter of huge promise who fell into mental illness while touring the Mediterranean in the early 1840s. He spent over forty years in lunatic asylums but never gave up his calling, producing mesmerisingly detailed watercolours and oil paintings of which The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (detail here) is now the most well known. The picture’s history encapsulates the peculiar rise and, if not fall, then at least suspension, of its maker’s reputation, and indeed begs the question of what happens to any long-dead forgotten genius after they’ve been rediscovered. Read more in Nicholas Tromans' essay "Richard Dadd's Master Stroke": https://buff.ly/2D6HUWt . #publicdomainreview #fairies #fairy #painting #illustration #richarddadd #art #historyofart #otd #onthisday #arthistory #queenmab

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Oggi è la Giornata Mondiale dell'Arte e noi fan dei #Queen un quadro preferito lo abbiamo sicuramente... The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke è un dipinto dell'artista inglese #RichardDadd. Fu iniziato nel 1855 e Dadd lo dipinse mentre era incarcerato nello State Criminal Lunatic Asylum di Bethlem Royal Hospital, dove fu rinchiuso dopo aver ucciso suo padre nel 1843. Quando #freddiemercury lo vide ne rimase talmente affascinato da usarlo come fonte di ispirazione per la sua omonima canzone, pubblicata su Queen II #queenforeverblog #giornatamondialearte https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsjGs9shkB/?igshid=1ve2ikjn21ngt

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Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (1855-1864)

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