Editing Richard Dadd (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:The-halt-in-the-desert-richard-dadd.jpg|thumb|''The Halt in the Desert'', 1845<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Artist's Halt in the Desert|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1987-0411-9|access-date=2022-01-01|website=The British Museum|language=en}}</ref>|260x260px]]
[[Freddie Mercury]] was inspired to write the song '[[Queen II#Black side|The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke]]' based on Dadd's painting, which he had seen at the Tate Gallery. In 2013 [[Neil Gaiman]] wrote an essay about the painting for the magazine ''Intelligent Life'' (now called [[1843 (magazine)|''1843'']]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.1843magazine.com/content/arts/anonymous/gaiman|title=Neil Gaiman's fantasy painting|last=Gaiman|first=Neil|date=14 June 2013|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=3 January 2020}}</ref>

[[Angela Carter]] wrote ''Come unto these Yellow Sands'', a radio-play based on Dadd's life, first broadcast in 1979.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01bj9qf BBC]</ref>

Canadian author [[R. J. Anderson]] acknowledges Dadd as the basis of her fictional painter Alfred Wrenfield, who figures prominently in her young adult fantasy novel [[Faery Rebels|''Knife'']] (2009).<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with R.J. Anderson|author=McNeil, Gretchen|url=http://enchantedinkpot.livejournal.com/15627.html|date=10 June 2009|publisher=The Enchanted Inkpot|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927003602/http://enchantedinkpot.livejournal.com/15627.html|archive-date=27 September 2012}} Retrieved 1 December 2009.</ref>

In 1987, a long-lost watercolour by Dadd, ''The Artist's Halt in the Desert'', was discovered by [[Peter Nahum]] on the BBC TV programme ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]''. Made while the artist was incarcerated, it is based on sketches made during his tour of the Middle East, and shows his party encamped by the [[Dead Sea]], with Dadd at the far right.<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist's Halt in the Desert by Moonlight|url=http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/11795|publisher=[[Peter Nahum]] at the Leicester Galleries|access-date=1 October 2007|archive-date=24 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324210153/http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/11795|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was later sold for £100,000 to the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard Dadd, The Halt in the Desert, a watercolour|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/r/dadd,_the_halt_in_the_desert.aspx|work=Explore/Highlights|publisher=The British Museum|access-date=28 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228210914/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/r/dadd,_the_halt_in_the_desert.aspx|archive-date=28 February 2014}}</ref>

[[Loreena McKennitt]] features Dadd's 1862 painting "Bacchanalian Scene" on the cover of her 1987 Christmas CD ''[[To Drive the Cold Winter Away]]''.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

[[Terry Pratchett]] included ''The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke'' in his 2003 [[Discworld]] novel ''[[The Wee Free Men]]''. Tiffany, the protagonist, finds it in a book of fairy-tales and later escapes from a dream set within the picture. In the author's note, Pratchett describes the painting and gives a brief but sympathetic summary of Dadd's personal history and struggle with mental illness.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}