Commons sense: tracking down a parliamentary artist

Seven years of research, multiple meetings with members of the Lords and the Commons and tracking down an artist’s grandchild in Scotland were all part of dealer Daniel Hadden’s process to establish the painter of an unusual picture he had bought at an antiques fair.

The unfinished and unsigned painting depicts Britain’s first female prime minister at the dispatch…

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