Monday 6th May 2024

    TradeBriefs Editorial

    From the Editor's Desk

    Lost 17th-Century Painting Returns to an Oxford Gallery Four Years After It Was Stolen

    “A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan” was recovered from a man in Romania who alerted the authorities

    In March 2020, thieves broke into the Christ Church Picture Gallery at the University of Oxford and stole three artworks, which were together worth approximately $12 million. Now, four years later, one of those works has been returned: A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan, a 17th-century landscape painting by Salvator Rosa. 

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