According to information New York TimesArtist Robert Gemmell Hutchison’s painting “Children Walking on Water”, stolen from the Glasgow Museum (England) 34 years ago, was returned.
In 1989, unidentified people entered the museum through a window using a ladder and stole this famous work of the Scottish artist, as well as many porcelain dolls and oil paintings. The fate of the painting was unknown for many years.
But suddenly in 2022, Children in the Shallows turned up at an estate sale in North Yorkshire, England. This unusual case caught the attention of experts at the Art Loss Registry, an organization dedicated to finding stolen or lost works of art, antiques and collectibles. Their database contains more than 700 thousand different lots.
So, thanks to the work of the Art Loss Register, the painting was rescued and returned to the Glasgow Museum, where it was once again available to the public.
It was previously known that there was a museum employee in Germany. stole He sold his paintings at auction.
Previously in the Netherlands to create Van Gogh’s painting was stolen.