John Anster Fitzgerald - The Fairy Bower
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The Fairy Bower
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John Anster Fitzgerald (1819-1906) was a Victorian artist known for his fairy paintings. He was born in Ireland and moved to London in the 1840s to pursue an artistic career. Fitzgerald's paintings often depicted fairies and other mythical creatures in whimsical and fantastical settings, and he became renowned for his ability to capture the delicate and ethereal nature of these beings. His work was popularised by the rise of the fairy tale genre in literature during the Victorian era, and his paintings were often used to illustrate books. Fitzgerald's legacy has endured, and his fairy paintings continue to be admired by art lovers and collectors around the world.
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Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main genre. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.
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