When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government. Hartveld ...

Samuel Hartveld and his wife were among those escaping Nazi persecution when they left Antwerp, leaving behind a number of belongings including the oil-on-canvas work Aeneas and his Family Fleeing ...

The artwork, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654) by Henry Gibbs, was seized from Samuel Hartveld’s home in Antwerp as an act of "racial persecution," according to the UK’s ...

(JTA) — When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government.

The artwork, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654) by Henry Gibbs, was seized from Samuel Hartveld’s home in Antwerp as an act of "racial persecution," according to the UK’s Spoliation ...

Tate has welcomed the recommendations of the UK government’s Spoliation Advisory Panel to return Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy by Henry Gibbs to the heirs of Jewish Belgian art collector ...

Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp, Belgium, with his wife in May 1940. The artwork by English painter Henry Gibbs was one of ...

The painting— Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654)—was one of 66 works seized by the Nazis from a gallery owned by Samuel Hartveld in Antwerp on 26 March 1942. According to the ...

The trustees also acknowledged the scholarly efforts of Geert Sels, author of ‘Kunst voor das Reich’ in identifying the plight of Samuel Hartveld and his family because of Nazi persecution in Belgium ...