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Curators to the fore

A REDISCOVERED painting by Joshua Reynolds will be displayed by Strachan Fine Art at the Cotswold Art and Antique Dealers’ (CADA) fair (until October 17). A 21¼in by 26¼in panel of two young girls with bonnets in a woodland setting—which I cannot illustrate as it was in the hands of restorers on our press day—it was probably painted in the early 1780s. The fair has moved from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, its base in recent years, to Compton Verney, Warwickshire, which also offers visitors the chance to see ‘Centuries in the Making’, the

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