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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Tate Museum returns a picture spoliated by the Nazis to the descendants of their rightful owner
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…
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