John Anster Fitzgerald

John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819[1] – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist.

Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.

In 1849 Fitzgerald married Mary Ann Barr[note 2] and they raised at least four sons and two daughters.

"[6] Fitzgerald created "remarkable fairy pictures of pure fantasy, rarely based on any literary theme.

Twentieth-century art forgers have been active in creating phony Fitzgerald fairy pictures.