(b Chatham, Kent, 1 Aug 1817; d Broadmoor Hospital, Berks, 8 Jan 1886). English painter. He was the fourth of nine children of Robert Dadd, an apothecary and chemist in Chatham. His mother was Mary Ann Martin. Two of his brothers and one sister were, like Dadd himself, to die insane.

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