#richard dadd

[myteaplace]

Evening, Richard Dadd (1817-1886)

#evening #richard dadd #oil on canvas #painting #19th century painting #british painter #victorian painting

[neil-gaiman]

Is it really ”The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke”? What’s a feller? Internet says the title is written on the back of Dadd’s painting but won’t show pics. Wouldn’t a fairy teller be more of a thing? Asking you as a fairy tale teller.

He's a feller -- someone who fells trees and such with his mighty axe, and who is about to split a chestnut.

Dadd wrote a poem about the painting, called Elimination of a Picture & its subject--called The Feller's Master Stroke, in which he describes all the people and creatures you can see in it. Of the Feller he says,

fay woodman holds aloft the axe Whose double edge virtue now they tax To do it singly & make single double Featly & neatly--equal without trouble.

(He was a remarkable painter. Not so much of a poet.)

Freddie Mercury was inspired by the painting and also by the poem (how did he get hold of the poem? Even Roger Taylor seems baffled) and wrote the Fairy Feller's Master Stroke song.

#fairy feller #richard dadd #queen

[venustapolis]

Come unto These Yellow Sands (Richard Dadd, 1840)

#art #painting #Richard Dadd

[hitku]

by Richard Dadd

#art #painting #richard dadd

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

Richard Dadd The Attack of the Spider oil on canvas

#1819 - 1887 #british artist #Richard Dadd

[jamesusilljournal]

Richard Dadd

#Richard Dadd #Painting #Outsider Art #Madness #Art History #Over Detail Aesthetic #Art By Killers

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Richard Dadd - Come unto these yellow sands, 1842.

#Richard Dadd #Come unto these yellow sands #fairies #fairy ring #fairy

[gluttons-for-punishment]

Richard Dadd (1817-86)

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (1855-64)

The original painting that inspired Freddie’s 1974 masterpiece.

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You can see the actual real painting at Tate Britain in London. I’ve been to see it - it’s tiny. So much detail in such a limited space. It’s magnificent, though.

#Richard Dadd #the fairy feller's master-stroke #Freddie Mercury #Queen

[lisamarie-vee]

#richard dadd #painting

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Portrait of a Young Man by Richard Dadd, 1853

#Richard Dadd

[desolatus]

Titania Sleeping, c. 1841

Richard Dadd

#oil painting #painting #fairy art #fairycore #fairy #fairy aesthetic #richard dadd #1840s #19th century #historical art #historical painting

[karrova]

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke

Richard Dadd

#Richard Dadd #m #fairy #fairies

[pagansphinx]

Richard Dadd (British, 1817–1886) • Puck • n/d • Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire

#victorian fairy painting #victorian painting #richard dadd #british painter #art #painting #fine art #art history #19th century art #british art

[thewaspandthefig]

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd

1855-1864

#like he started painting it in 1855 and didn’t finish til 1864 #wild #ALSO THIS GUY FUCKING PAINTED THIS #WHILE HE WAS IN AN INSANE ASYLUM #AFTER HE KILLED HIS FATHER #no wonder why it feels ominous omg #Richard dadd #elf art #fairycore #fairy art #art

[throathook]

#The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke #oil on canvas #26 in × 21 in (660 mm × 530 mm) (1855–64) #richard dadd

[illustratus]

Sketch of Robin Hood by Richard Dadd

#robin hood #sketch #art #history #england #archer #archery #bow #arc #europe #legends #folk tales #folklore #medieval #britain #richard dadd #heroic #outlaw #english #sherwood forest #swordsman #tales #crusades