Brief Biography-Richard Dadd from the town of Chatham was the son of a chemist who moved to London to deal in art. In London, Richard entered the schools of the Royal Academy. He achieved considerable success with his genre paintings in 1838. In this period, some of his most noted works were a series of one hundred pictures regarding Byron’s Manfred and Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered. In 1842, he left London with Sir Thomas Philips for Egypt. Tragically while in Egypt, he suffered from sunstroke and became mentally unstable. When he returned to England in 1843, he continued to paint until he murdered his father due to paranoia in Cobham Park, Surrey. He fled to France, and when he attacked a traveller in Fontainebleau, they caught and deported him. He received a sentence of life imprisonment in Bethlehem Hospital. When in confinement, he was encouraged to paint, where he produced some of his most well-known paintings. He died in Broadmoor Hospital in 1886, where several of his works still hang.