Jean-Antoine Houdon’s six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby. The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age ...
The oil sketch “Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg” by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House. Anthony van Dyck's "Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of ...
In 1953, a grandee of the British art establishment, LGG Ramsey, had moved house and needed cash to pay for new curtains. His solution was to sell an oil sketch by Anthony Van Dyck via an ...
The theft of an oil sketch from a stately home in Northamptonshire remained a riddle for 70 years.
The oil sketch “Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg” by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House. Anthony van Dyck's "Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of ...