In Britain, where fairy painting would reach a zenith ... The popular play had a long-lasting influence on artists, and while the Victorian era would experience a true fury for these winged ...

But the situation with “Victorian Fairy Painting” is somewhat different. Many of the 70 paintings, watercolors, prints and drawings that have come to the University of Iowa will arouse ...

who made his hyper-intricate fairy paintings while living in a Victorian asylum after killing his father. Then two wider cultural developments came along that changed fairy reputations forever.

At first glance, images such as “Self-Portrait With Animal Skirt” remind you of Victorian fairy paintings. Here she stands in a dark landscape wearing a skirt made of swans, geese, rabbits and ...

Brown’s new work is described as “charged reinterpretations of pastoral imagery, hunting scenes and bucolic Victorian fairy painting” and explores “the nostalgic fantasies of the British ...