After putting on hold its prior recommendation back in March of this year, the United Kingdom Spoliation Advisory Panel has recommended that the Tate Gallery in London should return Beaching a Boat, Brighton by John Constable to heirs of Budapest-based (and Jewish) Baron Ferenc Hatvany. The Art Newspaper reports that the Spoliation Panel concluded that the 1946 export license at issue in the springtime uncertainty (located from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts) was insufficient to overcome the conclusion that title to the looted painting had not passed lawfully.
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Hungary,
London,
The Art Newspaper,
Beaching a Boat Brighton,
Nazi-looted art,
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Mrs P.M. Rainsford,
Broadway Art Gallery,
Budapest Museum of Fine Arts,
Restitution,
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Baron Ferenc Hatvany,
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United Kingdom Spoliation Advisory Panel
As if there weren't enough controversy with national advisory commissions' recommendations about Nazi-looted art, the Tate Gallery in London is apparently reconsidering a recommendation last year by the United Kingdom’s Spoliation Advisory Panel that Beaching a Boat, Brighton (1824) by John Constable should be restituted to heirs of Budapest-based Baron Ferenc Hatvany, who was Jewish.
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Topics:
John Constable,
Soviet,
Budapest,
Worcestershire,
London,
The Art Newspaper,
Beaching a Boat Brighton,
Nazi-looted art,
Red Army,
Mrs P.M. Rainsford,
Broadway Art Gallery,
Restitution,
World War II,
Baron Ferenc Hatvany,
Tate Gallery,
Washington Principles,
United Kingdom Spoliation Advisory Panel
