University scholar solves 70-year portrait theft mystery
Source: BBC
An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft of an original oil sketch, by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, from a stately home in Northamptonshire.The Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.It was part of a collection - described as "a puzzle missing a central piece" - of 17th…
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