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Richard Dadd Portrait of Mr George Bailey
Summary
Portrait of Mr. George Bailey. Signed, inscribed and dated 'Sketch of Mr. Geo. Bailey/by Richd Dadd. August 13th 1855/Bethlehem Hospital London' (lower left). watercolour, 25.5 x 17.5. George Bailey was employed at Bethlem Hospital (London).
Richard Dadd (1817–1886) 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. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals.
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Date
1855
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public domain
