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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Dutch police say they have recovered five valuable 17th century paintings snatched six years ago from the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands. A museum spokesman told the BBC some of the works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega and Adriaan van Ostade had been damaged. However, the depictions of daily Dutch life in the 1600s were all expected to be back on display...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Dutch police have recovered five 17th-century paintings stolen from the Frans Hals Museum in 2002. The paintings include Jan Steen 's Charlatan on the Market , as well as works by Cornelis Bega , Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart . At the time of the theft, the paintings were insured for a total of $4.3 million. The De Telegraaf newspaper reported police had arrested three people.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Dutch police have recovered five 17th-Century paintings, including a Jan Steen, that were stolen from the Frans Hals Museum in 2002, the museum said Tuesday.
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Five 17th Century "peasant paintings" stolen from the Frans Hals Museum in 2002 are due to go back on display today, having been found by the Noord-Brabant police in a house in ‘s-Hertogenbosch . Three arrests have been made. Two of the stolen paintings are by Adriaen van Ostade, one by Jan Steen, one by Cornelis Bega and one by Cornelis Dusart. They all depict Dutch "peasant" life in the 1600s. Click...
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PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Earlier Tuesday Dutch police announced that detectives had found five 17th-century paintings, more than six years after the paintings were stolen from the Frans Hals Museum in the city of Haarlem. One of the paintings is a Jan Steen. Dutch police worked together with Britain’s Serious and Organized Crime Agency on the case. They infiltrated crime [...]
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Dutch detectives have recovered five 17th-century paintings, including a Jan Steen, more than six years after they were snatched ...
