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UK panel backs return of Henry Gibbs’s Aeneas to the Hartveld heirs

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Henry Gibbs, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, T06782 · Tate / Art UK / Wikimedia Commons
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The UK panel recommended returning the painting by Henry Gibbs to Samuel Hartveld’s heirs. It found that the work was looted after Hartveld fled Antwerp.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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