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The Great British Art Tour: the fairy folk who made the house stink


The Riders of the Sidhe (pronounced Shee) is John Duncan’s masterpiece. It is an iconic image of the late 19th-century Celtic revival – a movement that evoked the ancient cultural identities of Scotland and Ireland. Remarkably, it was Duncan’s first major work in the challenging medium of tempera. …

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