Richard Dadd : the artist and the asylum. /
Tromans, Nicholas.
Tate Publishing (London, England)
London : Tate Publishing,
2011.
The most brilliant young artist of his generation, Richard Dadd (1817-76) made his name with a sequence executed fairy paintings of huge imaginative power. Following a long tour of the Middle East in the early 1840s he succumbed to a 'schizophrenic' illness, murdered his father, fled to France where he attacked another traveller, was apprehended by police and confessed to his crime. After his return to England he spent over forty years in Britain's most famous lunatic asylums, never ceasing to work as an artist. Tromans traces the critical response to Dadd's work, both during his lifetime and after his death.
The most brilliant young artist of his generation, Richard Dadd (1817-76) made his name with a sequence executed fairy paintings of huge imaginative power. Following a long tour of the Middle East in the early 1840s he succumbed to a 'schizophrenic' illness, murdered his father, fled to France where he attacked another traveller, was apprehended by police and confessed to his crime. After his return to England he spent over forty years in Britain's most famous lunatic asylums, never ceasing to work as an artist. Tromans traces the critical response to Dadd's work, both during his lifetime and after his death.
Dadd, Richard, 1817-1886.