Fairies have been a constant part of any child's (and adult's?) imagination for ages. They are in folklore, literature, drama, art and film. Victorian fairy drawings and paintings appeared regularly in Royal Academy exhibitions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Most Victorian painting themes were derived from plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Milton and Spenser. Victorian paintings were usually whimsical involving folklore and fairy tales.
Artists chose to draw or paint fairies for a variety of reasons, but mostly, famous English artists painted fairies because it was so popular during this Victorian time.
It was so prevalent, that it became known as the "The Fairy School" stylistic phase.
Below is a list of famous Victorian fairy paintings by their equally popular artists.
The Faun and the Fairies by Daniel Maclise, c.1834
Scene From a Midsummer Night's Dream by Francis Danby, c.1832
The Faun and the Fairies by Daniel Maclise, c.1834
Titania Sleeping ,byRichard Dadd, c.1841
The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke by Richard Dadd, c.1855-64
The Fairy's Barque by John A. Fitzgerald, c.1860
The Fairy's Funeral by John A. Fitzgerald, c1864
Fairies Looking Through a Gothic Arch by John Anster Fitzgerald, c.1864
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