Richard Dadd 40 High Resolution Images

Richard Dadd was a well-known Victorian fairy artist but he wasn't a one-trick pony - this download contains an assortment of his images, including his two most famous works, 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' and 'Bacchanalian Scene'.

This download features 40 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist Richard Dadd.

The images are all 600dpi or 300dpi and range in size from 3258 pixels wide/tall to 6760 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.

Richard Dadd (1817-1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals.

Dadd was born at Chatham, Kent, on 1 August 1817. He was educated at King's School, Rochester, where his aptitude for drawing was evident at an early age, leading to his admission to the Royal Academy Art Schools at the age of 20. He was awarded the medal for life drawing in 1840. With William Powell Frith, Augustus Egg, Henry O'Neil and others, he founded The Clique, of which he was generally considered to be the leading talent. He was also trained at William Dadson's Academy of Art.

Freddie Mercury was inspired to write the song 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' based on Dadd's painting, which he had seen at the Tate Gallery.

Read our full Richard Dadd biography.