A new portrait of Blackadder at a historic mansion house left visitors scratching their heads. The oil painting of the BBC sitcom favourite was secretly installed at Audley End House.
The painting, by renowned artist Tom Croft, shows the much-loved Rowan Atkinson character in his Elizabethan attire. It was painted in a classical oil on canvas style and completed with an ornate gold frame.
It left tourists at the English Heritage property in Essex bemused – with some even mistaking the comedy character for Shakespeare, British aristocracy and even Henry VIII.
