Coincidence #AlsoCalledRobert #RichardDadd

The #RichardDadd exhibition at @royalacademyarts.bsky.social is excellent, very popular, ranging from his fairy paintings made at Bethlem Hospital to his travel sketches and family portraits. Only for 2 more weeks. £15

Four more works from Richard Dadd
Beyond Bedlam at the Royal Academy in The Jillian and Arthur M Sackler Wing of Galleries until 25 October 2026 #richarddadd

Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam at the Royal Academy to October 25 highlights the talents of the visionary artist whose legacy is complicated by his personal history. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (1855-64) - inspired Freddie Mercury to write a song of the same name for Queen II in 1974 #RichardDadd

Richard Dadd exhibition at The Royal Academy, London. #richarddadd #royalacademy

Here's the Netherlands version for THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR, which cleverly mixes the #RichardDadd detail of #TheFairyFellersMasterStroke with the garden landscape belonging to the modern-day central #character.

Following on my post about #RichardDadd the #Victorian painter, here's the French cover fro my novel THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR. Like the USA version, it also features a detail from Dadd's painting #TheFairyFellersMasterStroke, which took him nine years to paint.

The cover of my book THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR. Seems appropriate while the #RichardDadd exhibition is on. Dadd was committed to #Bedlam and #Broadmoor for the murder of his father. #TheFairyFellersMasterStroke (which took him 9 years to paint) was produced there.

The very real fraughtness of that position - cf ‘Down Below’ - is hinted at, if perhaps not its full ghastliness, as in the murderous mania which overtook #RichardDadd.

I’ve been peering cautiously at his work again since seeing the Royal Academy show: it’s still uniquely & terrifyingly outside.

Ye spotted snakes with double tongue /Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen /Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong /Come not near our fairy queen!
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