Artist

Richard Dadd

Portrait of Richard Dadd
Portrait of Richard Dadd

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Richard Dadd is an United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Romanticism artist. 17 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

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.

Works by Richard Dadd

Collections represented

Tate

Museum

Tate

2 works at Tate

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