Jennifer Higgie’s Empathetic Elegy for Richard Dadd
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Richard Dadd, "Bacchanalian Scene" (1862) (image public domain US CC0 via Wikimedia Commons)In English painter Richard Dadd’s “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke” (1855–64), the ghostly, gray faces of well-dressed Victorians nestle among human-size dandelions and shrubs, partially obscuring a shrouded figure raising an axe overhead. The eerie work was painted at Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric institution where Dadd was confined after hi
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