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Richard Dadd

1817 - 1886

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Dadd has received more than 566,055 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Dadd is the 1,225th most popular painter (down from 1,223rd in 2019), the 2,504th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,724th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Richard Dadd ranks 1,225 out of 1,421Before him are Tarō Okamoto, Max Weber, Mariam Aslamazian, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Willem Roelofs, and Uroš Predić. After him are José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Federico Zandomeneghi, Barthel Beham, Bartolo di Fredi, Austin Osman Spare, and John Trumbull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Richard Dadd ranks 51Before him are Branwell Brontë, Joseph Poelaert, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, and Braxton Bragg. After him are Georgi Pulevski, Francesco de Sanctis, Édouard Deldevez, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Ernest Hébert, and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten. Among people deceased in 1886, Richard Dadd ranks 33Before him are Eugène Isabey, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Theodor von Oppolzer, Adolf Lüderitz, Charles Lwanga, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg. After him are Leopold Zunz, Winfield Scott Hancock, Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Paul Bert, Ivan Aksakov, and Pyotr Tkachev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Dadd ranks 2,504 out of 7,765Before him are Terry-Thomas (1911), Henry Pottinger (1789), George Rooke (1650), Ioan Gruffudd (1973), James H. Wilkinson (1919), and Malo (487). After him are Andrew Ridgeley (1963), Eric Ambler (1909), Leonard Hobhouse (1864), David Crystal (1941), Sigeberht of Wessex (750), and David Chipperfield (1953).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Richard Dadd ranks 44Before him are Matthew Paris (1200), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Auguste Couder (1789), Roger Fry (1866), Bridget Riley (1931), and L. S. Lowry (1887). After him are Austin Osman Spare (1886), Marianne North (1830), Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Alan Lee (1947), Edwin Landseer (1802), and George Dawe (1781).