Tate Britain to Return Nazi-Looted Painting to Jewish Collector's Heirs

Painting looted by Nazis to return to rightful owners

Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector.

Britain’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 …

London’s Tate Museum Is Returning a Henry Gibbs Painting Looted by Nazis

Known as 'Aeneas and his family fleeing Burning Troy' (1654), the work bought by the Tate in 1994 reportedly belongs to heirs of Samuel Hartveld.

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’…

The 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…

London, UK. - The Tate Britain, one of the leading museums in the UK, will return a painting by the English painter Henry Gibbs to the heirs of a Jewish art collector plundered during World War II, announced on Saturday the British Ministry of Culture.Aeneas and his family flee Troy in flames, oil of 1654 representing the Trojan hero Aeneas trying to save his family from the city in flames, belonged to Samuel Hartveld.This Jewish collector had t…