Most Famous Fairy Paintings

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF FAIRY PAINTINGS

FAIRIES IN ART

Fairy painting portrayed scenes of fairies in mythical settings and scenarios inspired by literary productions such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595 – 1596) and The Tempest (1610 – 1611) by William Shakespeare.

VICTORIAN FAIRIES

The final days of Victorian fairy painting had seen a decline in interest in the topic, considering the imminent World War I and the move away from Romanticism.

THE 12 MOST FAMOUS FAIRY PAINTINGS OF ALL TIME

Oberon, Titania, and Puck with Fairies Dancing (c. 1786)  by William Blake

Titania and Bottom (c. 1790)  by Henri Fuseli

The Fairy Lovers (c. 1840)  by Theodor von Holst

Titania Sleeping (1841)  by Richard Dadd

The Captive Robin (c. 1864)  by John Anster Fitzgerald

Dancing Fairies (1866)  by August Malmström

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1873)  by John Simmons

A Fairy Under Starry Skies  (c. 1880) by Luis Ricardo Falero

Die Waldfee (1894)  by Karl Mediz

Fairyland (1906)  by Edward Reginald Frampton

The Waterfall Fairy from The Enchanted Forest (1921)  by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Flower Fairies of the Spring (1923)  by Cicely Mary Barker