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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 ...

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 ...

Richard Dadd painted some dazzling visions abroad but found peace within the walls of Broadmoor. By Michael Prodger The Art of Bedlam: Richard Dadd Watts Gallery, Guildford On 28 August 1843 the ...

Some have suggested the red fez hat in Portrait of a Young Man may be the one worn by Richard Dadd in the Middle East before he became unwell A portrait created over 170 years ago by Richard Dadd ...

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 ...

After returning to England in May 1843, Dadd suffered increasingly from the belief that he was persecuted by devils. On Aug. 28 of that year, he went for a walk with his father, took out a knife and ...

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is a great work of art. Painted by Richard Dadd, a man in a mental institute who was categorised as a criminal lunatic, it was purchased by the Tate Gallery in 1963.

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 ...