Export bar for Niagara Falls picture as Ed Vaizey hopes to keep early watercolour in UK

The UK government has placed a temporary export bar on the earliest known on-the-spot depiction of Niagara Falls which sold at Christie’s South Kensington earlier this year.

Offered with a £40,000-60,000 estimate at the sale of the Peter Winkworth collection in April, the w…

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