Restitution win for 101 year old Resistance veteran
June 13 2022
Picture: Guardian
I love these restitution stories; Bischoff van Heemskerck, the daughter of a Dutch doctor who went into hiding rather than collaborate with the Nazis, and who was herself a member of the Resistance, has been reunited with a portrait by Caspar Netscher, more than 70 years after it was looted by the Germans from a Dutch bank. Dalya Alberge has more in The Guardian here. The picture has been consigned to Sotheby's in July.
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