Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images It is believed most of Samuel Hartveld’s pilfered collection still hangs on the walls of European museums. His descendants initiated ...

(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.

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

Samuel Hartveld, a respected art dealer, fled Belgium with his wife in 1940 when Nazi forces invaded. Though he survived the war, he never recovered his stolen collection. His home and paintings ...

The Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended the return of Henry Gibbs’ 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, from Tate Britain to the heirs of Samuel Hartveld. The panel ...

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

The heirs and great-grandchildren of Samuel Hartveld will receive the work, which the art collector left behind in May 1940 in Antwerp after he fled Belgium with his wife, the Government announced ...