Dadd sketch heads for the Met in New York

Art dealer Andrew Sim has sold a watercolour by Richard Dadd (1817-1886) to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It is the first work by the enigmatic Victorian artist to enter the museum’s vast art collection.

Known as Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Senility, it was featured in ATG when Mr Sim bought it a…

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