STOLEN PICTURE RESTORED
The cathedral of St. Bavon, at Ghent, I has had restored to it half of a panel forming part of a celebrated picture, "The Adoration of the Lamb," painted j by the brothers Van Eyck in the fif-1 teenth century. The panel was stolen in April, 1934. The Public Prosecutor's Department, in announcing the restoration, states that the thief was a Belgian, who died recently. When i the recovered part of the panel was secured is not stated by the authorities, but it is known that soon after the theft it was left on deposit at the cloakroom at the North Railway Station by the thief, so that the Bishop of Ghent, to whom he had offered to restore the whole panel for a large sum in cash, might secure expert opinion on its authenticity. Correspondence from the thief ceased after this, but recently the papers of a man who died in an Eastern Flanders town provided a clue. His house was searched twenty-five times, but the missing part of the panel was not found.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 31
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178STOLEN PICTURE RESTORED Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 31
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