Treble Dutch: £13m old master painting stolen for a third time – The Guardian

Its nothing to smile about for lovers of Dutch art. Police have reported that Two Laughing Boyswith a Mug of Beer, by the old master Frans Hals, has been stolen for a third time.
The Golden Age work, painted in 1626-7, was snatched from a small museum in the town of Leerdam, near the city of Utrecht, early on Wednesday morning.
Thieves forced the back door of the Hofje van Aerden museum to steal the painting, setting off an alarm. But by the time officers arrived at 3.30am, there was no sign o…

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