Which Victorian painter, noted for his pictures of fairies and other supernatural creatures, murdered his father in 1843 and was committed to a lunatic asylum for the remaining 43 years of his life?
"The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is a painting by English artist Richard Dadd. It was begun in 1855 and worked on until 1864. Dadd painted it while incarcerated in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum of Bethlem Royal Hospital, where he was confined after he murdered his father in 1843. It was commissioned by George Henry Haydon, who was head steward at Bethlem Royal Hospital at the time. Dadd had begun his career as a painter of fairy paintings before the onset of his mental illness. After he was committed, he was encouraged to resume painting. G. H."
"Richard Dadd 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. Dadd was born at Chatham, Kent, England, the son of a chemist. He was educated at King's School, Rochester where his aptitude for drawing was evident at an early age, leading to his admission to the Royal Academy"
"John Anster Fitzgerald John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed ""Fairy Fitzgerald"" for his main genre. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel. The year of his birth in Lambeth in south London has been variously given. He was of Irish ancestry, the son of the minor poet William Thomas Fitzgerald. In 1849 Fitzgerald married Mary Ann Barr and they raised at"
"have since sold for up to £500,000, although most sell at prices between £30,000 and £120,000. His younger daughter, Florence Harriet Fitzgerald (1857–1927), was a painter and sculptor. She married landscape artist Walter Follen Bishop (1856–1936) in 1889. John Anster Fitzgerald John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed ""Fairy Fitzgerald"" for his main genre. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel. The"
"his strongest pictures include ""Angel releasing Peter from Prison"" (life-size), painted in 1831, ""Una with the Lion entering Corceca's Cave"" (1832), the ""Murder of the Innocents,"" his last exhibited work (1838), ""Comus"" and ""Amphitrite"". The Tate Gallery now owns ""Edith finding the Body of Harold"" (1834), ""Cupid Disarmed, Rebecca and Abraham's Servant"" (1829), ""Nature blowing Bubbles for her Children"" (1821), and ""Sir Calepine rescuing Serena"" (from ""The Faerie Queene"") (1831). In the National Portrait Gallery is his likeness of John Keats, with whom he was acquainted. William Hilton William Hilton RA (3 June 1786 – 30 December 1839), was an"
"1821. Despite the jury ruling that he was guilty on a capital charge, which should have resulted in a death sentence, the judge declared him not guilty on the grounds of insanity. He was detained in Bethlem Royal Hospital, where he remained until he died 9 years later. During this period of detention, he made a number of drawings, including self-portraits and an apocalyptic picture of the destruction of London. His son, Richard, from his first marriage, was brought up by Jonathan's brother John. Richard committed suicide in September 1838, three months after his father's death. Professor Herschel Prins has"
"psychiatric hospital for the murder of his father. Despite his status and condition, his fantastic subjects and extraordinarily detailed style were generally well-received, with one period reviewer describing his work as ""exquisitely ideal"". He accompanied his masterpiece, ""The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke"", with an elaborate poem providing historical, literary, or mythological context to each of the characters depicted. Fairy painting was not exclusively the domain of outside art, however. The work of John Anster Fitzgerald debuted at London's Royal Academy. His work, in the form a series of Christmas-themed fairy illustrations, received wider public visibility in the Illustrated London News. The"
"the loss of sight in one eye made work increasingly difficult. In November 1855 his youngest brother Thomas had him admitted to the Crichton Royal in Dumfries, suffering from an illness described as ""monomania of ambition and general paralysis."" The Institution pioneered the use of artistic activity in treating patients, and his case notes indicate that he continued to draw until mid-1857; a drawing of a cathedral and a watercolour of Craigmillar Castle produced during this time have been attributed to him. After this he suffered further mental deterioration and died in the Crichton on 12 March 1858 of general"
"Henry Fuseli Henry Fuseli (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as ""The Nightmare"", deal with supernatural subject-matter. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, and created his own ""Milton Gallery"". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake. Fuseli was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the second of 18 children. His father was"
"him, and for a time many English artists copied his mannerisms. After a life of uninterrupted good health he died at the house of the Countess of Guildford on Putney Hill, at the age of 84, and was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. He was comparatively wealthy at the time of his death. Henry Fuseli Henry Fuseli (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as ""The Nightmare"", deal with supernatural subject-matter."
"Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith Lucy Jane Faulkner Orrinsmith was a tile painter, engraver, and embroiderer during the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. She is best known for her hand-painted tiles of fairytales, especially of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella. Lucy Jane Faulkner was born to Benjamin and Ann Faulkner on 16 November 1839 in Birmingham, England. She had two surviving siblings, Charles Joseph Faulkner and Kate Faulkner. They lived in Birmingham until the death of their father, and moved to Bloomsbury after his death. It is unknown what caused his death. When they moved to Bloomsbury, the"
"largest surviving collection of her hand-painted tiles up on display. Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith Lucy Jane Faulkner Orrinsmith was a tile painter, engraver, and embroiderer during the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. She is best known for her hand-painted tiles of fairytales, especially of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella. Lucy Jane Faulkner was born to Benjamin and Ann Faulkner on 16 November 1839 in Birmingham, England. She had two surviving siblings, Charles Joseph Faulkner and Kate Faulkner. They lived in Birmingham until the death of their father, and moved to Bloomsbury after his death. It is unknown"
"and the Royal Academy; and spent some years (about 1832-37) in Italy. He died in 1847. In the Victoria and Albert Museum are: John Byrne (artist, died 1847) John Byrne (1786–1847) was an English painter and engraver. He was the only son of engraver William Byrne and followed his father's profession in the arts. After his father's death in 1805, he moved to 54 John Street, London. He provided sets of engravings for Charles Wild's works on cathedrals. Byrne around 1818 was drawing-master at Eton College. He subsequently concentrated on landscape painting in watercolours; his sister Mary and her son"
"for funds. He writes: ""dire necessity (of) being completely driven up into a corner, but finding I must be obliged to make a sacrifice of some of my pictures. As times are so bad and nothing selling, I have not received any money since I had it from your dear self."" In letters to Allan in 1853 he mentioned he had not recovered from illness suffered seven years previously. The sons of artist Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846) provide further insight into this mysterious illness, ""Kidd went mad shortly after my father's death from horror and Fred saw him in Hanwell"
"Drs William Wood, William Orange and Sir W. Charles Hood. Dadd probably suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Two of his siblings had the condition, while a third had ""a private attendant"" for unknown reasons. In hospital Dadd was encouraged to continue painting, and in 1852 he created a remarkable portrait of one of his doctors, Alexander Morison, which now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Dadd painted many of his masterpieces in Bethlem and Broadmoor, including ""The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke"", which he worked on between 1855 and 1864. Dadd was pictured at work on his ""Contradiction: Oberon and Titania"" by"
"painted 490 pictures for his brother, and probably three hundred more for others, besides making hundreds of drawings. His total production is estimated at no less than four thousand pictures. In 1802, he was released under the Insolvent Debtors Act, but his health was ruined and his habits irremediable. About this time he was seized with palsy and lost the use of his left hand, so that he could not hold his palette. Notwithstanding he seems to have gone on painting to the last, when he was arrested again for a publican's score, and died in a sponging-house in Eyre"
"satan-like figure, luridly bathed in red light, and whispering corrupting thoughts in her ear. By the late 1860s Elmore was moving away from such Hogarthian subjects towards a more classical style influenced by Edward Poynter and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. He also painted Arabic figures, in line with the vogue for Orientalism in art. Elmore suffered from neuralgia through much of his life, and in his late years he became lame following a fall from his horse. He died of cancer in January 1881 and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery in London. Alfred Elmore Alfred Elmore RA (1815–1881) was a Victorian"
"a pert, self-conscious quality which makes them more titillating than Etty's powerful studies... William Edward Frost William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy, beginning in 1829; he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting that was characteristic of Victorian art. In 1839 he won the Royal"
"15 years transportation. He arrived in Western Australia on board the ""Ramillies"" on 10 August 1854 and was held at Fremantle convict establishment for two years. He was released for four months then convicted again for forgery of a one-pound note. For this crime he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. At some time during this sentence, he is thought to have drawn intricate drawings of religious figures, Roman and Greek mythological depictions, and images of Queen Victoria on the walls of his small cell. He was released in 1867 and worked as a painter and clerk until his death"
"fantasy novel ""Knife"" (""Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter"" in the USA). In 1987 a long-lost watercolour by Dadd, ""The Artist's Halt in the Desert"", was discovered by Peter Nahum on the BBC TV programme ""Antiques Roadshow"". Made while the artist was incarcerated, it is based on sketches made during his tour of the Middle East, and shows his party encamped by the Dead Sea, with Dadd at the far right. It was later sold for £100,000 to the British Museum. Richard Dadd Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for"
"paresis of the insane, or syphilis, aged 42. He was buried in Cumwhitton on 16 March 1858. An extract from his obituary described him as a ""truthful and unpretending artist, who wooed nature rather than popular favour."" William Bell Scott recognised the early Pre-Raphaelite precision in Blacklock's technique and his great power of truth; indeed it was Scott and his artistic friends (almost certainly including Rossetti), who used Blacklock's painting ""Barnard Castle"" of 1852–53 to try to study his luminous glazes over a white ground which had been developed over many years. Blacklock thereafter developed into an artist of great"
"this he was declared legally insane. On May 23, 1848, Deas was committed to New York's Bloomingdale Asylum (now occupied by Columbia University). He was institutionalized for the rest of his life. During this period, his paintings were described as being particularly intense. ""One of his wild pictures, representing a black sea, over which a figure hung, suspended from a ring, while from the waves a monster was springing, was so horrible, that a sensitive artist fainted at the sight."" Deas died of ""apoplexy"" (possible stroke) in Bloomingdale Asylum on March 23, 1867. Deas' maternal grandfather was the 18th century"
"afflicted with hypertrichosis universalis and painted. His family became an object of medical inquiry by Ulisse Aldrovandi among others. Despite living and acting as a nobleman, Gonsalvus and his hairy children were not considered fully human in the eyes of their contemporaries. Gonsalvus eventually settled in Italy with his wife. The last known record of him is from 1617, when he was listed among those who had attended his grandson's christening. It is believed that marriage between Petrus Gonsalvus and lady Catherine may have partially inspired the fairy tale ""Beauty and the Beast"". He died in 1618 in Capodimonte. The"
"of skill was high and he exhibited his work in well-known galleries in London and Paris. The Royal Academy exhibited his work eleven times between 1898 and 1918, and his work was also shown in the Paris Salon of 1900. There he exhibited his portrait of his father, now in the National Portrait Gallery. He painted the portraits of many well-known individuals of the time. His most famous work, ""The Vampire"", depicting a woman straddling an unconscious man, was believed to have been modelled by the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom Burne-Jones had been romantically linked. The painting also"
"Ivan Albright Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983) was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes. His dark, mysterious works include some of the most meticulously executed paintings ever made, often requiring years to complete. Ivan Albright and his identical twin brother, Malvin, were born near Chicago in North Harvey, Illinois, to Adam Emory Albright and Clara Wilson Albright. Their father was a landscape painter, and came from a family of master gunsmiths, whose original name was ""Albrecht"". The brothers were inseparable during childhood, and"
"lunatic asylum, where he died on 26 March 1908, aged 45. His illustrations are plentiful in magazines of the time, most of them showing views around Greater London. He was also a prolific painter: one Streatham collector in Victorian times is known to have possessed no fewer than 150 of his paintings. Although these rarely come onto the market, eleven of his watercolours appeared at auction in Folkestone in 2008, and are now in a private collection. Rather than showing London views, two of them show Lincoln Cathedral, while another two show Lincoln town centre. The others are scenes of"
"and Foolish Virgins"", was engraved by Lumb Stocks for the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. He never married and died from ""exhaustion"", at 16 Salisbury Street, Edinburgh. He is buried with his brother in Warriston Cemetery on the eastern edge of the westmost path, towards the south end of the original cemetery. The following are said to be amongst his principal pictures: James Eckford Lauder James Eckford Lauder (15 August 1811 in Edinburgh – 27 March 1869 in Edinburgh) was a notable mid-Victorian Scottish artist, famous for both portraits and historical pictures. A younger brother"
"his family in Chicago for sixty-six years until moving to Woodstock, Vermont in search of a quiet lifestyle. In the 1970s, he served as a lecturer at Dartmouth College, and remained an active artist until his death in 1983. Ivan Albright Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983) was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes. His dark, mysterious works include some of the most meticulously executed paintings ever made, often requiring years to complete. Ivan Albright and his identical twin brother, Malvin, were born near"
"an ""Adoration of Shepherds"", once displayed at the British Museum, London. He was described by Pietro Selvatico as ""in coloring, highly skillful, but in shading, inimitably supreme"". He died in Venice. His sons Felice (1803–68) and Giovanni (1804–48) were also painters of mythology and history. Among his followers was Antonio Zuccaro (1815–1892). Many of his paintings were engraved by Luigi Boscolo. Natale Schiavoni Natale Schiavone (April 25, 1777 – April 15, 1858) was an Italian painter and engraver, mainly depicting history and portraits. Many of his paintings depict seductive nubile women. Schiavoni was born in Chioggia, near Venice, and is"
"Among the painter's most famous works are portraits of his father, Marcel Proust (private collection, Paris), the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Aubrey Beardsley (National Portrait Gallery, London), and Yvette Guilbert and the infamous beauty Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione whom his father had treated for mental illness. Others he painted included James Joyce, Julia Stephen, Edgar Degas, Claude Debussy, Auguste Rodin, Colette, Thomas Hardy, John Singer Sargent, Charles Conder, Percy Grainger, and Tamara Karsavina as Stravinsky's Firebird. He was the author of the unreliable ""Portraits of a Lifetime: the late Victorian era: the Edwardian pageant:"
"William Edward Frost William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy, beginning in 1829; he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting that was characteristic of Victorian art. In 1839 he won the Royal Academy's gold medal for his ""Prometheus Bound"", and in 1843 he won a"
"Hunt's ""The Scapegoat"". ""The Wounded Cavalier"" was the artist's single flirtation with the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the 1850s. In later years Burton mainly devoted himself to painting religious subjects. Though plagued by poor health and personal difficulties, Burton remained active as a painter into his eighties. His wife Mina Elizabeth Burton was the author of a novel titled ""Ruling the Planets"" (1891). William Shakespeare Burton William Shakespeare Burton (1 June 1824 – 26 January 1916) was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era. He is now remembered mainly for ""The Wounded Cavalier"" (1855). Burton's grandfather was a"
"paint well into old age, until prevented by arthritis and failing eyesight. In September 2010 he was buried beside his wife Vera, in Dromana Cemetery, Arthur's Seat, Victoria. As at July 2018, the ""Australian Art Sales Directory"" lists the Australian museums holding works by Vic O'Connor as follows: In addition the biography of Vic O'Connor on the web site of the Bridget O'Donnell Gallery records other holdings in: Further reading: Victor O'Connor Victor George ""Vic"" O'Connor (21 December 1918 - 8 September 2010) was an Australian artist and an exponent of the principles of social realist art. From the time"