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Richard Dadd's lively scene of fairy land from the 19th century is alive and well on any of these gifts featuring Dadd's classic "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke", painted between 1855 and 1864. Make others do a double-take with a dose of Art On Art attitude with any of these classic fairy painting reproduction gifts!
Dadd spent nine years working on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke under a magnifying glass. It is an allusion to English folklore and the works of Shakespeare i English playwright (died 1616), a classic of English literature., for which Dadd had an exceptional passion. He depicted the world of fairies just as people had always perceived them ...
10 de nov. de 2022 · The master stroke. Ploughman, “waggoner will” and types. Politician with senatorial pipe, he’s a dilly-dally-o. Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown. And a satyr peers under lady’s gown, dirty fellow. What a dirty laddio. Tatterdemalion and the junketer. There’s a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he’s my hero.
The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke. Richard Dadd (1819-87) 1855-64. Oil on canvas. 21.25 X 15.5 inches. Tate Britain Commentary by Jacqueline Banerjee. This small oil-painting was the first of Dadd's canvases to become widely known (Allderidge). It captures a single tense moment amongst the "little folk" on the forest floor.
Richard Dadd painted this work in the Bethlem Hospital where he was sent after murdering his father and being declared insane. The scene was drawn from his imagination. It shows the 'fairy-feller' poised to split a large chestnut which will be used to construct Queen Mab's new fairy carriage. The style, subject and shifting scale of the painting all contribute to a sense of the fantastic that ...
29 de jun. de 2011 · The painting is entitled The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke and it was completed in 1864 by the English artist of the Victorian era, Richard Dadd, and now hangs in the Tate Britain. The story of the life of the artist is quite a sad one. Richard Dadd was born in 1817 in Chatham, Kent, fourth of seven children.
Provenance: Presented by Siegfried Sassoon in memory of his friend and fellow officer Julian Dadd, a great-nephew of the artist, and of his two brothers who gave their lives in the First World War 1963. Physical Dimensions: w394 x h54 mm. Original Title: The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. Type: Painting. Medium: Oil on canvas.
