How's this for a cunning plan? Telly bosses sneaked a painting of Blackadder into a stately home’s collection of fine art to celebrate the comedy’s 40th birthday.
And the portrait of Rowan Atkinson ’s character in Elizabethan attire has already been mistaken for William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh.
Artist Tom Croft spent more than 60 hours on the oil painting for TV channel Gold, which will mark the hit BBC series’s anniversary on June 15.
