Victorian fairy painting
Victorian fairy painting.In his final speech of The Tempest, Prospero recognizes the necessity for a friendly collusion between the audience and the performer in order that the illusion of fantasy prevails. Victorian fairy painters and illustrators depended upon a similar supportive relationship as they conjured up ‘realms of faerie’ for appreciative spectators. Their enthusiastic admirers included such diverse luminaries as Queen Victoria, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, and Samuel Carter Hall. Fairy paintings appeared regularly in Royal Academy exhibitions throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th. Most of the artists from the early Victorian period took their subjects from the plays of Shakespeare, most notably A...
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