FBI recovers two Ammi Phillips portraits stolen in 1972
The FBI returned Ammi Phillips’s 1820s portraits of Derrick Wynkoop and Ann Eltinge to Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz. The paintings were stolen in February 1972. A record of their appearance at auction helped investigators trace them. The FBI image shows the portrait of Ann Eltinge.
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