Restitution news (ctd.)
November 13 2017
Picture: Commission for Looted Art in Europe
Some impressive sleuthing by Anne Webber, the indefatigable co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, has led to the restitution of a painting by Jacob Ochtervelt. The picture, The Oyster Meal, was stolen by the Nazis in Holland in 1945, and ended up in the collection of the City of London. Mrs Charlotte Bischoff von Heemskerck (above), the 96 year old daughter of the picture's late owner, Dr. J. H. Smidt van Gelder - who was director of the Children’s Hospital of Arnhem, where the picture was stolen - received the picture personally. More here in The Times, and here on the Commission's website.
