Richard Dadd was a Victorian artist whose elaborate worlds radiate with imaginative power. Here are five things to know about ...

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An ambitious new retrospective of Richard Dadd’s work focuses on the relationship between the troubled painter and his doctor In his 2011 book about Richard Dadd, the art historian Nicholas Tromans ...

Portrait studies of figures in Eastern Costume (1842), by Richard Dadd Promising artist Richard Dadd murdered his father in the summer of 1843. Detained as a "criminal lunatic", he continued to paint ...

Dadd was a successful young painter when he killed his father and was committed to Bethlem as a 'criminal lunatic'. His crowded, magical paintings have had a striking influence on future artists ...

The story is reasonably well known: Charles Dickens would even lead friends to the spot where it happened. In August 1843, Richard Dadd, a talented artist and “one of nature’s aristocrats”, returned ...

In 1842, Richard Dadd, a popular and gifted artist of 24, set off from London on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East with Sir Thomas Phillips, a former mayor of Newport, who had employed him to ...

Promising artist Richard Dadd murdered his father in the summer of 1843. Detained as a "criminal lunatic", he continued to paint during his incarceration. He is now remembered as one of the Victorian ...