A Seventeenth-century Italian panorama by Salvator Rosa that was stolen from the Christ Church Image Gallery in Oxford 4 years in the past has been found in Romania and returned, the museum stated.
A Rocky Coast, with Troopers Finding out a Plan, courting from the 1640s, was handed in to the Romanian authorities and recovered by officers from Thames Valley Police and the museum’s curator, Jacqueline Thalmann, the museum stated in a press launch. In a video assertion, Thalmann stated the portray was in “surprisingly good situation after the ordeal that it went via”.
Police are interesting for details about two different work stolen in the identical housebreaking on 14 March 2020, the discharge stated. These are Anthony van Dyck’s A Soldier on Horseback (c. 1617) and Annibale Carracci’s A Boy Consuming (c. 1580). The three works collectively had an estimated worth of £10 million and had been on public view since 1768, in accordance with the museum.
A person in possession of the Rosa portray contacted the Romanian police to return it. “Sadly, he’d already offered on the opposite two work not realising their significance,” Detective Chief Inspector James Mather stated. They might now be “anyplace in Europe,” he stated.
“We’re working with the Romanian judiciary and police, in addition to Eurojust and Europol, to assemble additional intelligence,” Mather stated. A part of the investigation contains detailed forensic evaluation of the returned portray, he stated.
