Inspired by the possibilities of painting in nature, rather than in the studio, artists traveled to the rugged Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris from the early 1820s to the mid-1870s forging innovations in art that would resonate for generations to follow. There, among the rural villages and the vast and varied wilderness, they laid the [...]

Telegraph.co.uk In 1842, Richard Dadd, a popular and gifted artist of 24, set off from London on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East with Sir Thomas Phillips, a former mayor of Newport, who had employed him to document their journey in drawings and paintings. Within a year, however, Dadd had returned to [...]