British Museum raises funds to keep Indian watercolour in UK

18th-century miniature originally purchased by painter Winifred Nicholson in 1919-20 An 18th-century watercolour described as “unparalleled in north Indian art” will stay in Britain after the British Museum raised the necessary funds.The Trumpeters by Nainsukh of Guler is believed to have been painted between 1735-1740. The government blocked its export licence in 2018 to allow time for a UK gallery to raise the £440,000 required to prevent it being sold overseas. Related: The