Jacob Waben’s painting ‘Vrouw Wereld’ (‘Lady World’) (1622), is among five stolen masterpieces to be returned to the Westfries Museum in the Netherlands © Westfries Museum/AFP/FileTHE HAGUE, Sep 12 – Five stolen 17th and 18th-century masterpieces will soon be returned from the Ukraine to the Dutch museum where they disappeared from more than a decade ago, officials announced on Monday.
“The Ukranian authorities will soon hand over five retrieved artworks to the Dutch embassy in Kiev,” said Marloes Hoorn, spokeswoman of the northwest town of Hoorn where the Westfries Museum is based.
A Dutch expert will travel to Kiev this week to …read more
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