The famed Victorian artist created the portrait while he was detained at the London hospital.
Some have suggested the red fez hat in Portrait of a Young Man may be the one worn by Richard Dadd in the Middle East before he became unwell
Shortly after returning home he killed his father, believing he had been possessed by the devil. He was then arrested while in France and detained at Bethlem as a "criminal lunatic". It will feature at an exhibition called The Faces We Present at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital's current site in Beckenham.
Founded near Bishopsgate in central London in 1247 as a priory of the Church of St Mary of Bethlehem to serve knights setting off for the Crusades
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