January 21, 2021 03:30 pm GMT
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Explore the famed faery painting of an artist dealing with mental illness in the mid-1800s
I just discovered a fascinating piece on Public Domain Review about Richard Dadd, a Victorian-era painter who is best known for the surreal depictions of faeries and other supernatural entities that he created while he was in asylum for having an "unsound mind" (likely schizophrenia), which resulted in him killing his father. — Read the rest
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