Tate Britain to Return Nazi-Looted Painting to Jewish Collector's Heirs
- The Tate Britain gallery will return the painting Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy to the heirs of Samuel Hartveld, a Belgian Jewish collector, as announced by officials.
- The Spoliation Advisory Panel ruled that the painting was looted during World War II as an act of racial persecution and should be returned to Hartveld's descendants.
- The painting was purchased by Tate Britain in 1994 and has been claimed by Hartveld's family after starting the process in May 2024.
- Tate director Maria Balshaw expressed, 'It is a profound privilege to help reunite this work with its rightful heirs.
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Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector
(JTA) — When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government. Hartveld, a Jewish Belgian art collector, never saw his artworks again. But now, the British government has ordered one of those paintings returned to Hartveld’s great-grandchildren. The painting, a 1654 work by English artist Henry Gibbs, had previously been in …


Tate Museum returns a picture spoliated by the Nazis to the descendants of their rightful owner
The London museum has communicated the return of the work 'Eneas and his family fleeing from Troy in flames', painted in 1654 by Henry Gibbs, to the declining Jewish art collector in Belgium Samuel Hartveld, who had to flee the country hastily before the arrival of the NazisThe Ministry of Culture presents Platfo, the 'Free Netflix': "The memory of a country is built around his images" The British government reported last Saturday that the paint…
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