Full Description
Richard Dadd (1817-1876) is perhaps best known for two things: his highly detailed fairy paintings and his incarceration for patricide. In 1843, as a young man, having suffered a schizophrenic attack during a tour of the Middle East, he murdered his father and fled to France, where he attacked another traveller before his arrest and confession. He spent the rest of his life in London's Bethlem Royal Hospital and then Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. Throughout these 40-plus years in asylums he painted constantly: he made The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Tate), his most famous work, between 1855 and 1864. This new account of his life and art by the leading authority on the artist examines the legacy of one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era.
Contents
Contents
Prelims: half-title, title pages, imprint and contents, PRA, sponsor
Introduction by Nicholas Tromans
Essay 2 by Sarah Thomas
Essay 3 by Cora Gilroy-Ware
Essay 4 by Robert Howard
Catalogue plates and captions for all images Section introductions by Natasha Fyffe
1. Dadd and the Royal Academy
2. Eastern Mediterranean Tour
3. Bethlem
4. Dadd and His Doctors
5. The Passions
6. Broadmoor
Endnotes
Further reading
Photographic acknowledgements
Index RA benefactors
