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The two share a fascination with Richard Dadd, an early Victorian painter who lived most of his life incarcerated in an insane asylum.
The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror by Elizabeth McGregor: Book summary 2010
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Like almost all of his contemporaries except Richard Dadd, he should have laid off the fairies, but when he concentrated on a nocturnal London Docks or gas-lit Leeds back street, he achieved a clarity of vision with his marbling of moonlight and shadow.
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Nominally, this painting is finished, but actually that's only because Dadd painted up to the very limit of his eyesight and his capacity to hold the brush, and then went on to the next painting.
James Elkins: Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings James Elkins 2011
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There are likely to be some high points as the weekend progresses, such as a set by Daniel Johnston next Sunday, where he'll be backed by the Low Anthem, and Mercury Rev's performance of their Deserter's Songs LP, but things kick off on Friday with the London Folk Guild presenting Rachel Dadd, Walsh & Pound, and Jack Cheshire.
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One of the first patients transferred from the old Bethlem hospital - now the Imperial War Museum - was the artist Richard Dadd, renowned for his minutely detailed fairy paintings which now change hands for huge prices, who was confined for life for the murder of his father.
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Dadd was, by force of circumstance, an artist who lived outside the art community.
Dadd's Imagination 2010
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Every afternoon we would sit inches from the screen and watch one show after the next until Dadd ...
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As I described on the Book View Cafe blog, I had written the first two segments of the story before reading William Powell Frith's account of Dadd's onset of madness, and the long letter written to Frith by Dadd from the Levant.
October 2009 2009
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Dadd skin me alive if he thought Id sent you off to a hotel!
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Every afternoon we would sit inches from the screen and watch one show after the next until Dadd ...
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