Fairy painting
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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.
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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