Richard Dadd - The Victorian Artist Who Killed His Father | Biographical Documentary

Richard Dadd was born in 1817. After showing early artistic talent he won a place at the prestigious Royal Academy School in London where he blossomed and won prizes. He was well connected and seemed to have a great future ahead of him. But on a trip to the Holy Land and Egypt in 1842 his mind started to unravel and he became convinced he was the son of the ancient god Osiris. On his return to England he brutally killed his father on a woodland walk and fled to the continent intent on doing the same to the Emperor of Austria. This video explores Dadd’s life and work to find out why he believed his father had to die and what became of him and his painting afterwards. Finding Out More: Beware of some of the internet information on Dadd, there are many factual inaccuracies. There are two biographies, both are out of print but second hand copies are available via my Amazon store page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/professor... Richard Dadd - The Victorian Artist Who Killed His Father | Biographical Documentary #RichardDadd #Art #MentalHealth #Biography Academic References; Allderidge, P. H. (1970). Richard Dadd (1817–1886): Painter and Patient. Medical History, 14(3), 308-313. Harris, J. C. (2004). The fairy feller's master-stroke. Archives of general psychiatry, 61(6), 541-542. Huddleston, S., and Russell, G. A. (2015). Richard Dadd: the patient, the artist, and the “face of madness”. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 24(3), 213-228. Lippincott, L. (1988). Murder and the Fine Arts; or, a Reassessment of Richard Dadd. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 16, 75-94. Stock, K. (2016). Richard Dadd’s passions and the treatment of insanity. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2016(23). Copyright Disclaimer: The primary purpose of this video is educational. I have tried to use material in the public domain or with Creative Commons Non-attribution licences wherever possible. Where attribution is required, I have listed this below. I believe that any copyright material used falls under the remit of Fair Use, but if any content owners would like to dispute this, I will not hesitate to immediately remove that content. It is not my intention to infringe on content ownership in any way. If you happen to find your art or images in the video, please let me know and I will be glad to credit you. Images: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Wellcome Collection British Library Music (via Wikimedia commons) JS Bach: Partita for Solo Flute, a minor (BWV 1013). Scott Goff. CC2.0 Claude Debussy: Preludes - Book 2: X. Canope. Giorgi Latsabidze, piano. Free art licence. WA Mozart: String quartet No 15 in C major K465. Quatuor Mosaïques. CC0 Julius Weissenborn: Trio for bassoons, Op 4. Arthur Grossman, Terry Ewell and Bruce Grainger (bassoons) CC2.0 Video produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston.