Museum to return painting stolen by Nazis
A museum will return a 19th Century painting stolen by the Nazis to the descendants of the original Jewish owner.
It recommended the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum should give it back to his descendants.The report into the painting was from the- a body of judges and historians that investigates claims for items stolen by the Nazis. The painting was removed by two men from the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg , a German taskforce responsible for acquiring cultural loot in occupied lands.'Acted honourably': "This is a deliberate seizure by the German authorities from a Jewish citizen of France with the diversion of the work of art to Nazi leaders.
In 1951 the painting was acquired by now-defunct London art dealer Arthur Tooth and Sons from a Swiss dealer.
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