From Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son and the eponymous King Lear to Thénardier in Les Misérables and the unseen but awful Carl Jones in Lee Daniels’ film Precious, the arts offer multiple examples of fathers behaving badly – even monstrously – down the centuries.
Positive representations of fatherhood – of good dads, nurturing dads and tender dads – are less common in comparison.
