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Watercolour

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Watercolour is a category of art or art movement represented by several artists such as Richard Dadd. Across 2 recent stories, British Museum and Royal Academy of Arts have covered Watercolour.

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Royal Academy’s Richard Dadd retrospective reunites the ‘Antiques Roadshow’ watercolour the British Museum bought in 1987 Image: Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (detail), 1855–64. Oil on canvas, 54 x 39.4 cm. Tate. Presented by Siegfried Sassoon in memory of his friend and fellow officer Julian Dadd, a great-nephew of the artist, and of his two brothers who gave their lives in the First World War 1963. Photo: Tate
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Royal Academy’s Richard Dadd retrospective reunites the ‘Antiques Roadshow’ watercolour the British Museum bought in 1987

‘Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam’, described by the Royal Academy of Arts as the artist’s biggest retrospective for half a century, runs from 25 July to 25 October 2026 in the Jillian and Arthur M.

Read full story London · 27 Aug 2026 [REPORT]

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The Dadd watercolour found on ‘Antiques Roadshow’ and bought by the British Museum in 1987 is back on view at the Royal Academy Image: Richard Dadd, The Artist’s Halt in the Desert, c. 1845. Watercolour and bodycolour. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence
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The Dadd watercolour found on ‘Antiques Roadshow’ and bought by the British Museum in 1987 is back on view at the Royal Academy

A Richard Dadd watercolour that had sat unrecognised in a Devon attic entered the British Museum's collection in 1987, and it is on public view again as one of the loans to ‘Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam’ at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which the Royal A

Read full story London · 27 Aug 2026 [REPORT]

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