'Looted' Constable work returned

Updated
Tate Britain
Tate Britain

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%The Tate has agreed to return an oil painting by John Constable after it emerged it was probably stolen from its owner by the Nazis and smuggled out of war-time Hungary.

A committee of government-appointed experts said the "likelihood" was the 1824 work, called Beaching A Boat, Brighton, has been "looted by the Germans in 1944 or early 1945".

Advertisement