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Tate Britain to Return Nazi-Looted Painting to Jewish Collector's Heirs
- Tate Britain will return the painting 'Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy' to the great-grandchildren of Samuel Hartveld, a Jewish art collector, after it was looted by the Nazis in 1940.
- The Spoliation Advisory Panel ruled that the painting was 'looted as an act of racial persecution' and recommended its return to Hartveld's heirs.
- Tate Britain is returning the painting 'Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy', looted by the Nazis, to the descendants of Samuel Hartveld, a Jewish art collector.
- Arts Minister Sir Chris Bryant praised the decision to return the painting as 'absolutely the right decision, which I welcome wholeheartedly.
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Cleveland Jewish NewsBritain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector
(JTA) — When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government. Hartveld, a Jewish Belgian art collector, never saw his artworks again. But now, the British government has ordered one of those paintings returned to Hartveld’s great-grandchildren. The painting, a 1654 work by English artist Henry Gibbs, had previously been in …
Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government. Hartveld, a Jewish Belgian art collector, never saw his artworks again. But now, the British government has ordered one of those paintings returned to Hartveld’s great-grandchildren. The painting, a 1654 work by English artist Henry Gibbs, had previously been in Britain’…
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elDiarioARThe London museum has communicated the return of the work 'Eneas and his family fleeing from Troy in flames', painted in 1654 by Henry Gibbs, to the declining Jewish art collector in Belgium Samuel Hartveld, who had to flee the country hastily before the arrival of the NazisThe Ministry of Culture presents Platfo, the 'Free Netflix': "The memory of a country is built around his images" The British government reported last Saturday that the paint…
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