Richard Dadd was, as far as technique is concerned, a very fine painter; his subject matter, however, could be decidedly off-beat. His most famous painting, which is not shown here, is 'The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke', and depicts a rather bizarre scene full of fairies. He seems to have had some kind of strange obsession with fairy-folk, and often used them as subjects for his paintings, but nobody knows why; perhaps the pixies told him to. In later life, Dadd grew disenchanted with the Little Folk though, and what we have here is his last known painting on the subject, entitled 'The Fairy Fellers Aren't What They Used To Be'.

Toward the end of his life, Dadd was a cad and a bit of a lad, and went a tad mad, as had Dadd's dad. It was just too bad, egad.