In the world of fairy art there are so many images from history we are familiar with, from sweet flower fairies to darker images of elemental beings that are almost nightmarish to the imagination. One of the most popular Victorian fairy painters, one of my personal favourites, and one who blended stunning natural history art with the otherworldly 'unnatural' history was the self taught artist John Anster Fitzgerald, so associated with Victorian fairy art that his nickname was Fairy…
