Jean-Antoine Houdon’s six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby. The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age ...

In 1951, an original oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck disappeared from an English country estate—only to mysteriously reappear across the pond a few years later. Now, just over seven decades later, an ...

The oil sketch “Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg” by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House. Anthony van Dyck's "Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of ...

In 1953, a grandee of the British art establishment, LGG Ramsey, had moved house and needed cash to pay for new curtains. His solution was to sell an oil sketch by Anthony Van Dyck via an ...

The theft of an oil sketch from a stately home in Northamptonshire remained a riddle for 70 years.

The oil sketch “Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg” by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House. Anthony van Dyck's "Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of ...

Lilias Wigan takes a detailed look at Van Dyck's Greate Peece, one of the highlights of the Royal Academy's stunning exhibition of the art collected by Charles I. The Royal Academy has launched ints ...

Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was originally in Boughton House, Northamptonshire An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft ...