New information
Since that piece was published, I was kindly contacted by Rita Swanberg of Hindman Auctions in Chicago, who confirmed that the 2005 sale of an illustration for Dickens’s Bleak House was in fact a 1925 work by Frank Dadd, not (as seemed unlikely) Richard as an auction aggregator website had erroneously suggested. Frank Dadd (1851–1929) was Richard Dadd’s nephew and known as an artist and illustrator in his own right.
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