In the Netherlands, local police, with the help of art detective Arthur Brand, have found Pieter Brueghel the Younger's painting "Woman Carrying Coals", stolen from the National Museum in Gdańsk half a century ago. At present the Polish authorities…

During the theft in 1974 the criminal replaced the original with a reproduction, and also made off with a sketch by Anthony van Dyck. According to Brand, the trail of the painting was first picked up by a reporter for the Dutch magazine Vind, who spotted it at an exhibition in the Museum Gouda. "He conducted his own investigation, found a black-and-white image of the painting in an archive and got in touch with me," Brand admits

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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In the Netherlands, local police, with the help of art detective Arthur Brand, have found Pieter Brueghel the Younger's painting "Woman Carrying Coals", stolen from the National Museum in Gdańsk half a century ago. At present the Polish authorities…

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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