Man Arrested Over Theft Of Van Gogh and Hals Paintings
The 58-year-old was taken into custody in Baarn in central Holland. He is suspected of stealing works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the towns of Laren and Leerdam.The paintings have yet to be recovered. Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer is valued at €15m (£13m; $17.5m).
Van Gogh’s painting known as ‘Spring Garden’, or Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, a loan to the gallery was taken during a break-in at the Singer Museum in Laren, near Baarn, in March last year.
Dutch man arrested in theft of van Gogh, Hals paintings
By (0) Spring Garden by Vincent van Gogh was stolen from the Singer Laren museum on March 30, 2020. File Photo by Marten de Leeuw/EPA-EFE/HANDOUT
The painting Two smiling boys (1626-1627) by Frans Hals was stolen from the Hofje Van Aerden in Leerdam, The Netherlands, on August 27. File Photo by Robin van Lonkhujsen/EPA-EFE
April 6 (UPI) Dutch police announced Tuesday that they arrested a man suspected of stealing two paintings one by Vincent van Gogh and the other by Frans Hals.
Neither painting, stolen in separate museum heists on separate dates, has been recovered.