Online Paintings

Victorian artists initially took their cute paintings from Shakespeare but soon devised their own scenarios.

By the mid 1800's a tradition developed among British and Scottish Painters that continues today the world over in every known media.

This exhibition of contemporary fairy Paintings, drawings and pictures embraces this tradition.

Faeries: also Fairy or Fairy, have long been the common terms for a legendary race of clever super- natural beings who meddle in human affairs, but they are known by many names.

Commonly associated with the Celts, Fairies are not the product of one culture or time; they have a pedigree.

Ancient Greek Heroes had fairy lemans, called nymphs, and the faraway Asians, Eskimos and American Indians had similar fairy legends as well.

The mythic Gandharvas of Sanskrit poetry were also fairies.

Many fairy tales popular today had their origins in the folk tales of prehistoric times...