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A genre of painting began with Victorian fairy painters such as Richard Dadd, and John Anster Fitzgerald and fairy tale illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, who illustrated scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest by Shakespeare, as well as their own fantasies of the miniature faery world. The genre which later popularized in the 1970s by illustrators Brian Froud and Alan Lee with their book Faeries and movies like The Dark Crystal and continues to the present day revival in fairy art.

The Captive Robin, John Anster Fitzgerald, c.1864
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The Captive Robin, John Anster Fitzgerald, c.1864

Victorian painters and illustrators

John Atkinson Grimshaw
Joseph Noel Paton
John Anster Fitzgerald
Richard Dadd
John Simmons
Daniel Maclise
Edward Robert Hughes
Warwick Goble
Richard Doyle

Later painters and illustrators

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Arthur Rackham
Cicely Mary Barker
Florence Harrison
Ann Mari Sjogren
John Bauer

Contemporary painters and illustrators

Brian Froud
Alan Lee
Myrea Pettit
Amy Brown
Kylie InGold
Selina Fenech
James Browne
David Delamare
Jessica Galbreth
Meredith Dillman
Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Linda Ravenscroft
Stephanie Law
Paulina Stuckey
Sonia Hansman
Virginia Lee
Lindsey Cormier
Nene Thomas

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