Who painted “The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke”?

“The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke” was painted by Richard Dadd in 1855. Where to see it: Tate.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Wikipedia

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More by Richard Dadd

“Titania Sleeping”, 1841
“The Child’s Problem”, 1857
“Contradiction: Oberon and Titania”, 1854
“Portrait of a Young Man”, 1853
“Wandering Musicians”, 1878
“The Flight out of Egypt”, 1849
“Settling the Disputed Point”, 1854
“Portrait of a Girl”, 1838