Portrait of John McDonald

Richard Dadd (1817 - 1886)

Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum

circa 1874

The portrait of an unknown sitter is a rare example of a fully worked up portrait drawn from a living sitter. It dates from the period of Dadd's confinement in Bethlem or Broadmoor hospital. The portrait demonstrates the artist's exceptional use of stippling with the point of the brush, a technique more common in miniaturist's work.

• Medium: watercolour on paper
• Dimensions: 39 x 25.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £21000 ( Total: £28,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries

Provenance

Recently discovered before 1994 by sitter's grandson; private collector; Davis & Langdale Company, New York; Peter Nahum, Leicester Galleries.

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