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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...