If you were wondering what the missing painting looks like, in this scene from the new trailer, then we can tell you that it is La Belle Dame Sans Merci, a Pre-Raphaelite work by the artist Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853 - 1928).
It hangs in Bristol Museum & Art gallery, where the scene with Sophie Aldred was filmed. The subject matter derives from a poem by John Keats:
"I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful – a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild… I set her on my pacing steed, And nothing else saw all day long; For side long would she bend, and sing A faery’s song."
Interestingly, the teaser comments talked about iconic paintings being defaced - not stolen.
Does this work have any relevance to the episode? Does some knightly figure encounter a femme fatale? Or did they simply need a space on a gallery wall big enough for an image of their own and so picked this one at random? I know which one I'd vote for...
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