Morse's iconic painting "Gallery of the Louvre" (1833) was an important attempt to bring the glories of European culture to our shores.
Spurred by interest from celebrity collectors like composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and a hugely popular 1997 exhibition of Victorian painting at the National Gallery in Washington, D.
In June, Istavrioglou allegedly posed as a potential gallery customer, lifted the painting off a wall, placed it in a shopping bag and left the gallery, according to the district attorney's office statement.
He demanded that the painting be removed from the gallery, its website and all promotional materials.
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Diller's "creative passion" was painting, Beverly Hills art gallery owner David Streets said.
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New York (CNN) -- Exactly eight months after the "brazen" theft of a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery, a Greek national was indicted Tuesday on a grand larceny charge, according to the New York County District Attorney's Office.
New York (CNN) -- A Salvador Dali painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery last week has been returned to the United States, New York police said.
In the 1970s the painting was loaned to the National Gallery in London and last year it went on display in the Courtauld Gallery's exhibition Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901.
The painting has been on loan to the gallery from the Duke Of Sutherland but he decided to sell it in the summer.
Spring forward to 2010 and French officials alerted Interpol that the painting might have been imported by a gallery in New York City.
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The painting occupies a specially designed double-height gallery visible from a distance as you enter.
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Thousands of people flocked to see David Hockney's largest painting during its first weekend at a Hull gallery.
The painting is on show at the Ferens Art Gallery until 18 September.
If we can tear ourselves away from this crash course in daring German painting before World War I, the next gallery expands the narrative to give us some of the back story.
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Take, for example, the work of 80-year-old master Robert Rauschenberg, who has been making people see the world in a new way since he debuted his "combines" (so called because they combine painting and collage) at the Leo Castelli gallery in the late 1950s.
On Friday, New York police picked up the painting at customs and returned the artwork to the gallery, Lt.
The only completed painting of Bacon by Freud was stolen from a gallery in Berlin in 1988 and never recovered.
"The gallery believes it to be the original painting, " Grimpel said.
Mr Cobbe realised the significance of the painting after visiting an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery where he saw a portrait that had until 70 years ago been accepted as a life portrait of Shakespeare.
Authorities in New York allege he flew back to Athens with the painting after taking it from the Upper East Side Manhattan gallery.
He joined the National Gallery in 1990, becoming Clore curator of Renaissance painting.
The exhibit at the Old Master Picture Gallery is an in-depth look at the painting's composition, acquisition and reception a story told through paintings, sketches, letters and objects.
More than 2, 000 people visited Hull's Ferens Art Gallery last weekend to see David Hockney's biggest painting to date, Bigger Trees Near Warter.
Such literati painting became emblematic of Chinese culture, and several works in the last gallery attest to Dong's posthumous influence on the taste of Qing art patrons.
Shows at the new gallery have included contemporary Chinese and Middle Eastern art and American abstract painting and sculpture.
The senior custodian of the art gallery, Dr Rainer Michaelis, recently commissioned extensive computer analysis of the painting and asked Mozart expert Wolfgang Seiller to investigate.
In January, three art works -- including a painting by Pablo Picasso and another by Piet Mondrian -- were stolen from the National Gallery in Athens.
In 2009, a painting of Shriver with several Special Olympians was added to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
The 1949 painting "Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio" was taken June 19 from the Venus Over Manhattan gallery by a man posing as a potential customer, according to a police statement.
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