Mad Richard
Krueger, Lesley2017
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A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England. Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner. Based on Dadd's tragic true story, this book follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane.
Main title:
Mad Richard / Lesley Krueger.
Author:
Krueger, Lesley, author
Imprint:
Toronto : ECW Press, 2017.
Collation:
360 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
local history
ISBN:
9781770413566 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
574528
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