John Duncan - A Masque of Love [1921]

John Duncan - A Masque of Love [1921], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

John Duncan was born in Dundee, Scotland in the year 1866. His father was a cattleman, but John had always showed both a disinterest in the family business and a propensity for visual art, so much that by the age of 11 he was already a prolific student at the Dundee School of Art. Called a madman by some and a mystic by others, Duncan admitted to hearing "faerie music" whilst he painted. His dreamy, mystical nature led him to fall in love with a woman whom he believed to have discovered the Holy Grail in a well in Glastonbury and who later divorced him. He never remarried and died in 1945.